An individual who feels so at variance with his/her plumbing that he is driven to go through the extreme hoops required to switch genders is showing the courage to step up to a problem and deal with it, which is praiseworthy. They are also showing a deep integrity to what they themselves actually fee4l, regardless of custom or expectation. Also praiseworthy. Rather than signs of mental illness, these traits are signs of above-average strength of character.

What does imply mental illness is the narrowminded reactionary responses from Josepp and Reiner upthread, who are apparently dedicated to promulgating the most arbitrary and reactionary ideas that well up inside of them without due reflection or insight. This is a study in Applied Neurosis.

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