Regarding dysphoria without being trans - hell, I've had it. I have never really wanted to have a male body or be socially male; I'm comfortable being somewhere in the realm of female/androgynous, but I have felt enough discomfort about having a female appearance to have kept myself unhealthily thin in the past, in part so my breasts would stay small, and so forth. I believe that would fall under "dysphoria" and yet I am not FTM. Perhaps my brain fires somewhat differently from both men and women, but then (as the person in Citrakayah's link mentioned) what would that make me, medically? And would my ambiguity there invalidate my experience? I think not.
I'm in an online support group for partners of FTMs and I have only heard a few instances of "trapped in the wrong body," though "dysphoria" gets mentioned very often as an experience. Granted, most people in that group are between about 18 and 35, so the experiences of older members of the trans community may not be represented... but that's what I've experienced in a group of about 200. Agreed that Jarandhel's "science" seems mostly to take into account his experience or selective opinion rather than the broader truths concerning a community, as (again) evidenced by the commenter in the link.
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Date: 2013-04-22 12:01 am (UTC)I'm in an online support group for partners of FTMs and I have only heard a few instances of "trapped in the wrong body," though "dysphoria" gets mentioned very often as an experience. Granted, most people in that group are between about 18 and 35, so the experiences of older members of the trans community may not be represented... but that's what I've experienced in a group of about 200.
Agreed that Jarandhel's "science" seems mostly to take into account his experience or selective opinion rather than the broader truths concerning a community, as (again) evidenced by the commenter in the link.