So... Is he unaware or just uninterested in the fact that the term "dysphoria" is used in a wide range of communities, not just in terms of gender and species? The eating disorder community uses it a lot, along with the lesser known "body dysmorphia," and so does the body positive movement and even some communities that don't use it to refer to identity so much as a feeling of displacement. The trans* community doesn't "own" the term just because they're the ones doctors assigned the word to first.
I'm not even going to bother engaging him, but I have seen neurologists and psychiatrists who have used those terms when discussing my experience /even before I've used the term myself/ and it's really only a matter of time before more medical professionals start using those terms for us as we become more widely known anyway. There's an official therianthrope research group being formed now, who are already using that vocabulary, is that not "permission enough" for him? Because at this point my only response to his lopsided logic is "tick-tock bitch."
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Date: 2013-04-23 12:48 am (UTC)I'm not even going to bother engaging him, but I have seen neurologists and psychiatrists who have used those terms when discussing my experience /even before I've used the term myself/ and it's really only a matter of time before more medical professionals start using those terms for us as we become more widely known anyway. There's an official therianthrope research group being formed now, who are already using that vocabulary, is that not "permission enough" for him? Because at this point my only response to his lopsided logic is "tick-tock bitch."