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The original was posted on /r/transmedical by /u/CrystallineEyes on 2024-04-10 01:42:47.

I’ve heard this a few times over the past year or so, mostly on social media, thank god, but some people I know have said similar things. Wow. I absolutely hate it. The idea is that cis men who get insecure about not being strong or tall enough, or the opposite in cis women, are experiencing gender dysphoria.

Wanting to conform to gendered expectations of your sex is Extremely Normal and expected, as well as generally encouraged by society. Being trans, and having the desperate desire for the OPPOSITE sexual characteristics is Extremely Not Normal, requires intervention and is the source of great suffering, alienation and discrimination. How you could think to compare the two is just beyond belief to me. I’m sorry for spelling out what is obvious to people here, I just feel like I need a sanity check about something that feels totally lacking in it.

If I hadn’t heard this from someone I know I’d assume it’s some attempt at parodying the trans community, but I guess not. I really, really hope this doesn’t catch on as the next step after ‘you don’t need to have dysphoria to be trans’. Feeling like nobody understood the nightmare I was going through before transitioning was bad enough when people were much less aware of this mess, but being surrounded by ‘queer allies’ who really, really think they do but are equally as lost is so much worse.