The Categories Were Made for Man, Not Man for the Categories [Classic]
Astral Codex Ten Podcast
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The Hairdryer Injuries - Part 5
I think these people expect me to argue that transgender isn't really a psychiatric disorder or something. But psychiatric disorder is just another category boundary dispute, and one I've already written enough about elsewhere. At this point I don't care enough to say much more than if it's a psychiatric disorder than attempts to help transgender people get covered by health insurance. So sure, gender dysphoria is a psychiatric disorder. And then I think of the hairdryer incident. The haird dryer incident was probably the biggest dispute I've seen in the mental hospital where I work. Most of the time all the psychiatrists get along and have pretty much the same opinion about important things. People were at each
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