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  • Some societies and cultures allow for forms of changing your gender, or have other gender roles that fulfil these (Fa’afafine, Hirjas etc.).

    The concept of “mental disorder”/“mental illness”/“mental issue” just like “gender” is a social construct.

    In a society where these other genders or changing genders is not commonly allowed, like modern western cultures, someone who doesn’t fit into the binary vision of gender might be seen as having a “disorder”.

    Just like back in the day, in a society where gayness is erased and does not exist, a gay person might be seen as having a mental disorder.

    But if we say being transgender is just a normal part of human diversity, like being gay — which I hope is the case, then it is not a “disorder”.

    It’s very important to note that what is considered a “disorder” or not is very much a social construct.

    Note: I’m not trans. If you notice any misconceptions or mistakes, please correct me. Thank you.












  • To be fair I think lemmy kind of radicalised me. When I got here I felt like a left wing outcast on reddit, but I was in reality more like somewhere between a socdem and a dem soc type.

    After a year here, I’ve been enlightened so much on online privacy and FOSS and stuff, learnt a lot about leftism and cool movements like solarpunk, and now find myself using the label “anarchism” to describe my political views. Lemmy has definitely slowly radicalised me and taught me a bunch of stuff.

    Obviously lemmy is not perfect

    (Also has it’s downsides, like a large tankie presence, aka. CCP and Putin propagandists, but to be honest, the left wing subs of reddit have been kind of taken over by tankie mods as well, which is part of the reason I switched to lemmy, most leftist communities on reddit felt authoritarian)