Typically, medical health conditions don't suddenly get 10x worse after they are diagnosed.
I believe there is good reason to believe in many cases much of gender dysphoria develops after trans identification, rather than gender dysphoria being this innate, inborn thing caused by an identity misalignment driving the development of the trans identification.
In other words, the trans identity itself has the potential to make the problem worse and create gender dysphoria ex nihilo. But how does that work? "Gender dysphoria" is supposed to be the inborn problem being treated by the "correct" diagnosis which is "gender dysphoria" but somehow telling them they have gender dysphoria suddenly makes their gender dysphoria worse, despite the “theory” being that this gender dysphoria is caused by an innate, stable neurological “mismatch” with the body? Are we sure we know what we're treating actually? I don't think we do.
I believe in many cases the “cure” for gender dysphoria (“trans identification and the associated life pathways”) can make the thing being treated worse because your expectations for happiness are now, in fact, impossible to achieve because your desires are now calibrated against the impossible wish to be born and grow up the opposite sex, which is now the “correct” standard to weigh your against in how you present yourself to society (“passing”).
Failure to live up to this impossible desire to be the opposite sex leads to neuroticism, social anxiety, agoraphobia, body dysmorphia, plastic surgery addiction, insecurity, self-image issues, narcissism, depression, and a host of other psychological comorbidities.
With a new autobiographical narrative of "I am trans," the mind suddenly has an entirely new set of expectations against which to triangulate desire and therefore calibrate one's sense of being content with reality. Your new role models to calibrate desire are transsexuals who have altered their bodies with radical medical interventions. You become envious of all the radical changes they have done to their bodies, which now makes you want those radical changes too.
Trans activists argue trans identification is "natural variation" and fought to remove "gender identity disorder" from the DSM because it's "stigmatizing."
However, if the trans identity is inherently healthy, how come the development of that identity in one's life so often correlates with your psychological health getting so much worse once the identity is chosen? How can the diagnosis of a disease ("your problem in life is because you are trans") all by itself cause the worsening of that very disease unless the disease itself is a psychological disorder?
Mainstream trans activists and gender medicine orthodoxy fundamentally wants to say the trans identity formation process is normal healthy psychological variation and that the problem is with the body, which is "wrong" and needs to be corrected to bring it in alignment with the "healthy" identity.
But what if it were the identity itself which was unhealthy and contributed to making whatever prior problem, if there was one, significantly worse by introducing a whole new set of unhealthy expectations that function as coping mechanisms?
Petition to bring back "gender identity disorder."
Yes, I agree with you. Lets bring back sensible diagnoses... It seems completely obvious that thinking of oneself as trans is existentially destabilizing. You're either not passing, with the consequent blow to the identity, or you are passing, which is like hiding yourself, or you're flitting between the two, in some kind of existential angst. Feels like a lot of wasted energy to me...
Obviously, a mental disorder, and it was so until the trans lobby took it off the DSM . Anyone who thinks they’re the opposite sex or that they’re a “ furry” obviously has a few things wrong mentally. These people need good mental health counseling.