Yes, You Have to Have Dysphoria to be Trans

Why do trans people exist? Because they were born with brains like those of their desired sex, rather than with brains of their sex-assigned-at-birth. Because their brain sex doesn't match their physical sex, something clearly needs to be done, which is why trans people generally transition, to align their body more closely with their brain. This mismatch of brain and body creates a discomfort, a sense of wrongness, called gender dysphoria (read a pretty good list of symptoms here). So, if you're brain doesn't match your body you are trans, if you're body and brain match, you're cisgender. Normal. Thus, the only logical conclusion is that if you don't have a mismatch, you have no dysphoria, and if you have no dysphoria, you cannot be trans. This makes sense right? Being transgender is a medical condition, and gender dysphoria is a mental illness, of which there is no cure, only medicine to make your life better, called transitioning.

Now, all that said, there's a movement of people who are claiming that you can be trans without gender dysphoria. So, we've already proven that being dysphoric is biological, and thus being trans must be as well, so, how can these people claim to be transgender? Because they FEEL like the opposite sex, they think it would be NICE to be the opposite, because they don't fit in with every gender stereotype for the gender they were assigned at birth. These people I will call "Transtrenders". They are "trans" because they view it as the cool, edgy, fun thing to be. It's the new "counter-culture". This movement is harmful to everybody, actual trans people, their family & friends, and themselves. These people are gender-nonconforming cis-people, and that is AWESOME. Seriously, it is good to be cis, we trans people wish that we were born cisgender (as our desired sex, of course), why? Because dysphoria SUCKS. By claiming that you can be trans without dysphoria, you are trivializing what actual trans people go through and make the trans movement out to be a joke.

Not only all this, but by pretending to be trans, you're blocking LIVE-SAVING resources from people who ACTUALLY need them. They are using up hormones that could be used for trans people, they are blocking trans people from getting therapy, and are confusing cis-gendered gender therapists on what being trans really is. Please stop and accept yourself for who you are, a cisgender person who is gender nonconforming. That's ok, it really is, accept yourself for who you are and stop trying to infiltrate a community that you have no place being in.