I'm going to break apart your post very intentionally. Hopefully you'll follow me here.
I'm getting into this thread kinda late.
Hi you!
No one would question that Down Syndrome is not a real, genetic variant.
Yes, it's an actual genetic disorder, caused by a supernumerary Chromosome 21.
Gender dysphoria is the same
Since when? If it's a genetic disorder share with us which genes cause it....
we know factually what causes DS.
The exact mechanism has not yet been identified.
You win!
Not been identified means that "postulations" are as worthless as Congress...
And that's just honest.
Guessing is guessing, real and actual clinical gender dysphoria is closest to phantom limb syndrome. Which puts the disease squarely in the brain, if it is in fact a disease process (which I'm not convinced of personally, it's treated psychiatrically because it has no disease process)
However, as a rare disease lottery winner myself (
CRPS type 2) , I can confidently say the brain is an area of the body we know nothing about medically. Nothing. We've extensively documented my disease since the civil war and all we've really managed to do is think of different things to call it.
A large number of CRPS patients kill themselves because the pain is so severe. I personally sat every day for 6 months with a gun in my hand trying to make through the next 60 seconds (every 60 seconds) without blowing my brains out waiting for a diagnosis and then treatment.
Yet, it's ultimately the brain, and we are clueless. Clueless. Clueless. Clueless.
I'll share with you this post from earlier in the thread.
I once asked a monk how those in heaven will be able to deal with having lost so many to hell, including those whom we may have loved personally. His response was that they will be forgotten to us. We will have no recollection of them at all - we won't care about them. I think he was right...
www.christianforums.com
^^^ both the video and the paper are of interest to the thread, if you'd like to read them.
Happy to talk again after you do.