Is being transgendered a mental illness?
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"Mental illness refers to a wide range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect your mood, thinking and behavior" Disorder-disrupt the systematic functioning or neat arrangement of. So given the definition we can clearly see that homosexuality is a Mental Disorder. I come to this conclusion because in the definition is says disorder(definition above) which relates in this definition because being homosexual disrupts the systematic functioning of the reproductive system. additionally it is a disorder that effects your mood thinking and behavior for the same sex : )
http://www.mayoclinic.org/ Side: Yes.
One of the biggest studies on the experiences of transgender people was the 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS). It found that in the U.S., 41 percent of transgender and gender non-conforming people had attempted suicide, compared to a national average of just 4.6 percent.Jun 22, 2015 What is the reasoning for the above stats ? Side: Yes.
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