# Religion, Transphobia and Category Errors **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [February 4, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-transphobia-and-category-errors/1013878 "2025-02-04T17:08:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 100
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-transphobia-and-category-errors/1013878/100 "2025-02-08T18:25:20Z")
> [@WalterBishop](#): > > Sorry if this question comes off as stupid or uninformed, but I was very much under the impression that gender dysphoria produced intolerable discomfort It’s a fine question. I was under that impression myself too, for a long time. I wrote a little bit about my experience [over here](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-teenagers-who-claim-to-be-trans-just-acting-out/1006960/230), and the article I linked [earlier](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-transphobia-and-category-errors/1013878/73) captures my thoughts about being male pretty accurately. [https://genderdysphoria.fyi/](https://genderdysphoria.fyi/) has a rundown of many different ways gender dysphoria can manifest. What I felt toward my body was mostly kind of a negligent indifference, like how you might feel about a hotel room on a business trip: it gets the job done and that’s all that matters, and if you don’t treat it with the same care as you would your own house, so what? I didn’t care how I looked or what anyone thought of me. I’d go days or even weeks without shaving, and several months between haircuts. I picked a facial hair style in high school and kept it forever, because changing it never seemed to make anything better or worse. I did the bare minimum to maintain my health. I’d wear whatever clothes were on top of the pile. All my shirts were at least one size too big, because I hated the feeling of anything form-fitting on my chest or shoulders: it wasn’t just uncomfortable, it was also inexplicably embarrassing. In fact, my whole wardrobe was like that: baggy stuff that concealed the shape of my body, as if my body was shaped wrong and I didn’t want people to see it. None of that seemed like a red flag at the time, because I was a nerdy west coast tech guy. I was _supposed_ to be a slob, right? So it was a surprise when it all changed as soon as I started to see myself as more feminine. > [@WalterBishop](#): > > If not, do you have any thoughts on what percentage of transgender women you think share your relaxed attitude to the sexed body they were born in? Hard to say, especially since those attitudes tend to evolve as someone transitions, and all the trans women I know are already some distance into that process. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/religion-transphobia-and-category-errors/1013878)._