There is little difference, and having a different gender identity isn't considered a mental illness.
bullshit. gender dysphoria is a mental illness. it changed a few years back to "disorder" to "erase stigma", not because there was anything in the real scientific world that changed its pathologies.
the people that wrote the DSM-5 are nuts themselves. have you bothered reading it and make an opinion? or you just accept uncritically the latest from the Mengele party book and just do whatever the order says?
the entire text can be read like it was the voice of madness itself. all mental illnesses just appear out of the blue, and even when their aetiologies are discussed, the causes are invariably genetic or reference other illnesses. At no point is there any sense that mental illnesses might be socially informed, that the forms they take might be a reflection of the influences and pressures of the world that surrounds us, which is insane from the point of view of scientific accuracy. kinds wanting to change "gender" because they are encouraged by parents or teachers and see it as a get out of anything card, almost like a social supepower? surely it can have no impact on decisions!
someone shitting in their office floor after everyone left because it gives them erotic satisfaction and a person that does the same because they believe that's how the demons will stop yelling in their mind are both categorized as the same thing. there's no thought given to the mental processes that got them there. oh a 300 lbs man that started wearing teenage girl clothes at fifty? he's a valid member of society who finally came out of the prison of their gender normativity! no way he's a pedo creep, or a lunatic that is doing it because it gives him sexual satisfaction. no siree, you're a bigot for thinking that.
the word disorder occurs so many times in the DSM-5 it just normalizes it as a natural state of life, almost a generic form of life. what it is a disorder from, the normality it deviates from, simply is not calibrated anywhere. we're all mad and at the same time absolutely normal. this is what your entire ethics is basing itself on, and it's madness in itself. normality being barely described outside a nebulous ideal, everything can be either condemned as disorder (your kid doesn't enjoy sitting perfectly still for hours and is easily bored? surely it's a disorder!) or just subsumed to a asymptotic normality (oh he's a 300 lbs 50 year old dude that likes to dress as a teenage girl? not a problem at all, just someone following their "gender identity"!). even a burst of joy can be made into a manic episode, but surely not the 300 lbs 50 year old dude wearing teen girl clothes!
the only normality defined in the DSM-5 is a state of near catatonia - the normal individual, from this manual's perspective, is a bovine-eyed and tranquilized individual, accepting everything the world throws at him without any form of opinion or mental disturbance on it whatsoever.
this is how you camouflage everything - make anything look like illness so that everything can be a rather normal state of being. and "take away stigma".
for everyone reading this guy's posts, this is how his mental state works - this book says it, shut up, take the book as sacred, mock anyone that doesn't. it's just a religion.
and people are supposed to believe that thinking you are a woman while being a man, that investing all your money into operations that mutilate your body, that create grotesque immitations of organs you do not and cannot have, that change nothing of the internal genetic structure, that you have to take enormous amount of hormones just to suppress your natural hormone production, that would immediately restart the second you stop the treatments, that you have to force an entire society to formally acknowledge you for what you want to believe you are but will never be, on the threat of people losing their jobs or being arrested maybe unless they do - this is supposed to be a normal mind.
fuck outta here with this bullshit.