The examples posted throughout this thread should be enough to show you that it does harm other people. It's not a personal choice that operates in a vacuum.
Surely you can spot the difference between letting a serial killer kill someone, and letting a man change genders
and then letting them participate in female sports. The changing of the genders isn't what caused the harm in itself, which is less than you can say for the killing of the person.
In case you didn't notice, I never disagreed with any of the posts pointing out that it's a bad idea to let transwomen compete against born women. That doesn't mean we shouldn't allow transwomen to exist.
Just showing how foolish the current gender dysphoria treatment logic is in itself when applied to another mental illness. It sounds like you have an issue with body modifications, so why does removing or adding one's penis/vagina not bother you?
You haven't explained why it's a mental illness though, you just keep asserting it. Which is why I brought up the analogy. You're the one who claims that wanting to switch genders is a mental illness, and I never said I have a problem with body modifications.
Now with all that out of the way, will you answer the question? Do you think that wanting body modifications/tattoos is a mental illness?
I would say my opinions are just as valid as theirs, yes.
So you don't believe that years and years of research makes an expert's opinion more informed than yours?
I knew when I typed that it would trip your trigger because you have allowed yourself to become deluded as to what normal sexual identity is. This is where you, and those that think like you, truly live or die on this issue.
Do you think those suffering with GID would be within the normal bell curve distribution or on the fringes of it?
Mmmm, I cannot help but notice that you didn't define what you meant by "normal". It sounds like you're implying "common" though. Is that it? When you said that transgenderism "to any healthy mind is understood as an abnormality", did you mean it is understood to be uncommon?