Hello! Although that is a good point, that was never considered mental illness in the DSM-5 by a wide variety of medical professionals, just by ignorant people looking to hurt others on the women one. Now homesexuality is a little different, that was in the DSM-5 but has been taken out but I think the problem is that you are thinking mental illness is inherently a bad thing when it’s not. Mental illness can hurt you but it doesn’t make you a bad person. Gender dysphoria hurts me and makes me uncomfortable just like all my other mental illnesses. It being defined as a mental illness makes it easier for me to receive the treatments of not only hormones and surgery but therapy. Yes, gender dysphoria is treated with therapy like any other mental illness. Support groups for transgender people are incredibly helpful as my whole support group would agree. Homosexuality doesn’t have a treatment and shouldn’t be defined as a mental illness because it hurts no one, but dysphoria does hurt people. It’s fine for you to not like the fact that it is a mental illness and you can totally start rallying to change that but opinions can’t change facts. I can’t just say that I don’t think borderline should be a mental illness because I don’t feel like it and that be the case. Homosexuality is obviously not a mental illness so it was taken out of the DSM-5 if you think dysphoria is not a mental illness then start rallying. Facts are the basis of science so don’t disrespect them by putting it in fucken quotation points. Thanks mate.

Edit: I was looking back at this and you actually can be correct because it is technically an opinion whether it is a mental illness in general although it is defined as such. Anyway I hope this was educational for both of us.