Nobody wanna talk about the trans-BPD link
Nobody wanna talk about the trans-BPD link
People don't wanna talk about it at all because it's too close to trans-ness being a mental illness but imma come at this from entirely the opposite direction:
The NO.1 predictor of a cluster B personality disorder is a consistently invalidating childhood environment.
What's more invalidating than spending your whole childhood saying "hey I think I'm actually a-" and every single person around you cutting you off right there and saying "no you ain't." Psychiatry ain't shit without social context but psychiatry is also coming to accept that being constantly invalidated as a child gonna do your brain the fucky-wucky.
It's ok to accept that trans ppl are at an increased risk of personality disorders due to our completely fucked societal norms. Accepting that we're at increased risk of mental disorders due to societal bullshit =/= saying being trans is a mental illness. If anything, it's an indictment of the society we live in.
TLDR; trans ppl are at increased risk of mental illness =/= transness IS a mental illness and we still deserve to acknowledge the trauma society done did to us.
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I have met and gotten close to so many trans women with BPD (probably more with it than without), and I also am BPD and trans. There is definitely a correlation. There should be no stigma in understanding this correlation. I remember one of my conversations with an uneducated person about trans people and the BPD correlation, and he brought it up like it was a bad thing. It's just a thing. Perhaps we could better understand ourselves if we looked further into it.
Good evening, I am an old straight bloke with a lesbian daughter, I don’t really fully understand the trans thing if I am honest, but then again I don’t really care…. All I want in life (probably like everyone else) is to be treated with respect and accepted! Does life need to be more complicated than that? Do what you like, be polite and nice to others…..simples !
Am I wrong?
Life is complicated because of people's differing needs and wants and opinions. But I agree that a baseline should be established of acceptance of all (except for those who desire to or do actually hurt others, they require special help and need to be in their own category). The reason transgender things are a little complicated, is because trans folk ask that they're respected and treated as their transitioned gender (the gender they have become). You don't have to believe us when we tell you who we are, but it's important that you respect us as we say we are. That, after all, is the baseline you yourself ask for.
If it's the reasoning behind transitioning you're curious about, it's not something that's fully understood. All we know, is that something, it might happen during fetal development, it might happen during early childhood, it might happen during mid-childhood, but it most likely happens before 10, changes a person, and internally, they become who they are not yet. Being who you aren't is akin to not existing at all, and so trans people suffer through gender-dysphoria. When people cite being transgender as a mental illness, they are referring to gender-dysphoria itself, which can be helped, if not cured. And here's the controversial part. The best treatment we know to gender-dysphoria is transitioning. What better way to treat feeling like you're in the wrong body, than by fixing the body you're in? You cannot change who you are inside, but you can change the outside.