This post is inspired by a recent user I interacted with accusing me of being transphobic due to disagreeing with the concept of “xenogenders”
Without going too in depth, this user identified as “swarmgender”, and believed they are part of a literal hive mind. This led me down a path of reflection, wanting to be accepting of someones identity while trying to understand it rationally, and I came to a pretty firm conclusion:
They’re fucking nuts.
I’m not saying this in a transphobic sense, there is nothing wrong with being trans…. But the medical terminology for what’s being experienced is gender dysmorphia. It’s a mental illness.
It’s important to acknowledge this because there’s a bit of a slippery slope going on where individuals with more severe mental issues are using gender politics to either
A: make themselves the bestest most specialist snowflake
Or
B: Obfuscate how fucking insane they actually are under the guise of anyone disagreeing being transphobic.
Anyway, this thread’ll be fun
The medical term is Gender Dysphoria and people who believe they are a part of a hive mind or a wolf or worm don’t have gender dysphoria. It’s like someone saying they have OCD because they dont like messy rooms. That’s not what OCD is.
Gender dysphoria is when a person experiences distress because the gender they have been assigned by society doesn’t match the gender they want to be. Gender is masculine, feminine, something in-between, a mix of everything, none at all, but hivemind and furry aren’t genders.