Your Sexuality and Gender Identity?

[Velasco]

As usual, hifly wants to illustrate us with his despicable views. Nothing concerning the divine and the human is alien to our illustrous Oxonian. And memphis wants his starring role, too. I think discussions related with sexuality should be better banned from Atlas, in order to save ourselves from the inconvenience and expense of reading the imputs from such forum geniuses.

[Velasco]

I think part of the objection to the use of cis stems from trans still officially being pathologized as a disorder. AFAIK, we don't usually have specific terms for not having specific disorders. There is no word for not schizophrenic or not bulimic or so on. Having a word for the opposite of trans suggests that it's not a psychiatric problem.

Why people think that can give categorical opinions on issues they ignore? Given the importance attributed to 'scientific' terms and definitions in this thread, I'm forced to correct our illustrious contributor resorting to an easily accessible document of the American Psychiatric Organisation.

http://www.dsm5.org/Documents/Gender%20Dysphoria%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf

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[Velasco]

This also relates to Velasco's post regarding using the use of unscientific language by associations in public in order to wash away "stigma". Dubious individuals may use that term to describe themselves, but it is not scientific language.

What???!!! If terms like "transgender", "cisgender" or "gender dysphoria" are used in scientific texts or in official documents, they must belong to the "scientific language" category. Also, the motivation to use "dysphoria" instead of "disorder" is not only to wash away the stigma associated to transgender people, it implies that such people isn't actually suffering a mental disease or disorder. Your "dubious individuals" use such terminology because it's the best available that describes their situation. As simple like that. Also, the document of the APO makes clear that psychiatric diagnosis is a necessary procedure in order that transgender people can access to care and treatment options, in neither case it implies that they are mentally ill or "disordered". I'll abstain myself to describe your weird obsession with the issue resorting to the DSM.