Comment by Mu5hroomHead on 14/01/2025 at 13:54 UTC

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View submission: Do non-binary identities reenforce gender stereotypes?

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Then that would classify it as a disorder, not a part of the general population. For example, there isn’t a category for the number of limbs in a form you have to fill out. Or whether you have an eating disorder (body dysmorphia). If NB is gender dysphoria, that is a disease. It has a treatment, which is gender assignment surgery.

For trans people, getting gender assignment surgery resolves their gender dysphoria, and being a trans woman or trans man aligns with the binary gender system we already have.

My hypothesis is the gender dysphoria non-binary people experience is just an internal struggle with gender stereotypes. We can fight these stereotypes as a woman or man. Clinical gender dysphoria is as follows and has a treatment that doesn’t require new categorization.

Diagnosis In teens and adults, a diagnosis of gender dysphoria includes distress due to gender identity differing from sex assigned at birth that lasts at least six months and involves two or more of the following:

• A difference between gender identity and genitals or secondary sex characteristics. Examples of those characteristics include breasts and facial hair. In young teens who haven’t started puberty, the distress may be caused by a difference between gender identity and the secondary sex characteristics that they expect will develop in their bodies.

• A strong desire to be rid of genitals or secondary sex characteristics, or a desire to prevent the development of secondary sex characteristics.

• A strong desire to have the genitals and secondary sex characteristics of another gender.

• A strong desire to be or to be treated as another gender.

• A strong belief of having the typical feelings and behaviors of another gender.

Medical treatment of gender dysphoria might include:

• Gender-affirming hormone therapy to better align the body with gender identity.

• Gender-affirming surgery, such as procedures that make changes to the chest, genitals or facial features.

Source: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/gender-dysphoria/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20475262

I haven’t read any concrete reason for why NB exists other than not fitting into traditional societal gender stereotypes. This distress is one we all experience and can be ameliorated by challenging and not choosing to follow gender stereotypes.

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