Quote Originally Posted by Fynlar View Post
You're doing it right now by insisting that it must be a mental disorder, when again, you cannot make that call for everyone else. Nobody can.

The only reason that people would cling to this terminology is to have something to lord over trans people and make them feel like there's something wrong with their heads.
Technically the decision to diagnose and classify mental disorders are on doctors and scientists. However, if someone shows the basic symptoms of a mental disorder it can be recognized by the common man. As that does help the person afflicted get help. That's why these things are public knowledge. For the most part none of this is in any way harmful. Your average person is more apathetic towards anything that doesn't immediately affect them. Even going as far as playing along even if they themselves don't adhere to that same belief. The idea that it's a harmful classification is wrong. That's like saying being labeled autistic is wrong. They have problems that doctors can help with and if they know what that problem is they can help fix it. What you're doing is denying people help.