# "Gender identity" is mental illness

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-identity-is-mental-illness/667011>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [August 23, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-identity-is-mental-illness/667011 "2013-08-23T22:38:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 26, 2013, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gender-identity-is-mental-illness/667011/144 "2013-08-26T21:12:56Z")

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> [@Nava](#):
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> I think that’s part of **monstro** ’s point, though: in a society with three genders, people have the possibility of identifying as any of the three genders. In one with two, there’s only two choices.

**Monstro** is even more wrong than everyone else. A society that does away with gender entirely - one that does not decide that because you are male (a physical attribute) you must be attracted to women, like sports and hate pink - makes sense. Increasing the number of boxes to put people in from two to three does not.

> [@Una\_Persson](#):
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> Because IMO they know that those are hot-button visceral topics which poison the debate and reinforce their agenda, which comes down to “transpeople are icky and they scare me.”

Transsexuals are like the religious right: idiots who hold a counterfactual worldview who think it’s hate speech to not treat their worldview as true.

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