I mean, I am mentally ill, but not because I’m nonbinary.
I don’t know you, but I know for many people, coming out helps with their mental illness issues.
Unsurprisingly, the stress of hiding your true self all the time for years is not mentally healthy.
Listen, it’s one kind of wrong to declare trans and nonbinary people as mentally ill, but like i really don’t see how my mental health impacts the genital structure I was born with
It only impacts it if you know it’s wrong and you can’t let the world know that your genitals don’t match your gender.
Like keeping any other huge secret would impact your mental health.
Oh yeah, but that’s like saying that having been to war is a mental disorder. Like as someone both trans and intersex, the former is an acknowledgment of an inner truth where all expressions of it are filtered through the brain at some point, but the latter idk what to tell people it’s like having a sixth toe (in the condition I’m thinking of of mine). You may not like it, and people may try to “fix” it or make me feel bad about it, but it was just there before my bottom surgery.
In a similar vein I have a cousin with (iirc) mono X. It’s definitely had negative impacts on her life and mental health but it’s a chromosomal condition not a mental condition
Okay, so intersex people are mentally ill from the moment that plays out in the womb?
Is this a schrodingers mental illness, where up until the intersex is determined by an ultrasound that they are both mentally fine and mentally ill?
