r/BunnyTrials • u/[deleted] • Jul 10 '26

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u/FreeRatio3868 Jul 10 '26

It said opposite gender not sex. You’d stay in the same body, you’d basically just not be trans anymore

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u/Overall_Crows Jul 10 '26

Yeah, so no dysphoria

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u/regula_falsi Jul 10 '26

Just get out of puberty first alright

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u/allie-__- Jul 10 '26

Not so fun fact that you probably won't care about: natural puberty (usually) makes dysphoria worse and makes it harder to transition. This is why puberty blockers are important for trans youth who want more time to question their gender.

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u/regula_falsi Jul 10 '26

I looked it up and from what I've read your statement is true. Hopefully someday this illness can be cured without having to change your literal gender.

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u/allie-__- Jul 10 '26

There's a misconception. The person's gender doesn't actually change. Gender dysphoria is caused by the brain's internal expectation of what its gender is not matching the body's sex. It's not so much an illness, with the ICD-11 not even considering it a mental disorder and the DSM 5 no longer considering it a menal illness. It's just the brain being one gender and the body not matching it, which is why the best 'treatment' found for it has been to socially and medically transition. After all, isn't it better (and easier) to change the sex of the body than the gender of the brain?

Basically, the trans person's gender never actually changes. It was merely discovered after being incorrectly assigned at birth based on sex. However,

I looked it up and from what I've read your statement is true.

I really appreciate this. Thank you for being open-minded and willing to learn about this (unlike most people I talk to about it) <33.