The Reimer case is a perfect example of what happens when you take a brain of one sex and forcibly put it in the body of the other sex. Reimer knew that he was a boy, that something was wrong, from an extremely early age. This is pretty much what transsexualism is. And because I didn’t get dysphoria as a child I’m 100% not a transsexual. The problem is figuring out how I was convinced that I was trans…

  1. ROGD: I wanted to be part of a special in-group that requires a certain medical condifion to have. Online spaces are the reason I think I’m trans.
  2. Munchausen’s: maybe I’m obsessed with being special and having medical conditions and so I self diagnosed myself with transsexualism. In Munchausen’s, patients are fully convinced they have the symptoms.
  3. Meaninglessness / “Magic cure”: It’s possible that I’m using transsexualism as a way to explain away why I’m such a failure in life and as a way to give me purpose. My brain was simply looking for a “magic cure” to solve all my problems
  4. Misattributed autoeroticism: It’s possible this is all stemming from a female embodiment fetish and I’m relabeling the symptoms as transsexualism out of shame.

Let me know if you have any other ideas.

      • Dreamcaster
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        2 days ago

        yeah but like it doesn’t rlly matter idk i guess i just don’t see the point in freaking out abt it cuz it just is what it is at this point

  • Zmeya04M
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    2 days ago
    1. Not real
    2. You’re not doing it for attention so it can’t be munchausens.
    3. Ahh yes making your life harder is the cure, intentionally putting yourself in the wrong body is the cure. Cmon
    4. Woman’s sexuality