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Originally Posted by ganstaman
None of this makes any sense except for those seeing really dumb doctors who shouldn't be practicing. Imagine an individual who has symptoms severe enough to diagnose some depression or anxiety disorder. If that individual is trans or not, it doesn't at all influence whether their symptoms meet the criteria for that mental health condition. Perhaps you'd consider a diagnosis of gender dysphoria instead, but that's the only change that would be made.
As someone who is a mental health professional and who works with many other such people daily, I find the idea that a mental health professional would downplay psychopathology in someone because they're trans just absurd. This profession skews left, so if anything wouldn't we be prone to over-treating such individuals?
If it's depression, gender identity doesn't matter much.
What about schizophrenia? Various behavioral disorders?
If you can't use gender identification as one of the severe symptoms of something being really wrong with that kid, because pseudo religious thinking forces you violently to NEVER doubt teenagers self identifications, never use that as a signal something might be wrong, you are very limited as a treating physician.
What if self identifying as trans in this society is a cry for help? No, that's impossible, we have to take 100% of the self identifications as simply the expression of true gender identity, no matter how inconsistent with the rest of the clinical picture that might be.