But where in the subject at hand is this ever brought up?
Have you even read any of my posts in this thread
My criticism of this law is that people like me, who support trans people but not nonbinary nonsense, would have their kids taken away simply for not believing in their children's delusions. Are they abusing their kid, beating them up, treating them like stuff? No? Then they shouldn't have their kids taken from them. If all they're doing is simply not accepting their kid's gender, and supporting them properly everywhere else, that's not grounds to remove someone's kid. Do they think foster care is better for trans kids anyway? I'm sure it is for the ones who are genuinely being abused, but let's get loving real.
gender dysphoria doesn't actually necessitate a binary model of gender; it only requires that a patient has a strong preference for a gender identity different from the one assigned at birth. the criteria for diagnosis that i've been referencing don't reflect this though, i'm assuming for simplicity's sake since the rest of the article doesn't exclusively refer to a gender binary
edit: actually, it seems like their use of "other gender" is meant to refer to the patient's "experienced/expressed gender" as mentioned previously, it's just vague enough to also imply a binary if taken out of that context
My problem with nonbinary genders is that the ones I have seen listed are pretty much a sliding scale of feminine and masculine traits. A man that feels feminine is not a new gender. That's just an effeminate male. Tomboys are not a new gender. I have long since accepted trans people for what they are, but I have only seen transtrenders, little teenagers still trying to find themselves, and young college-age adults struggling with a lack of sense of self identify as nonbinary in order to fit in. Nonbinary genders only serve to placate people who want to feel special while making trans people look like a loving joke.
And it would be different if, like trans people, their identities do not begin and end where people perceive them, but from my interactions with nonbinary people, they swear up and down society's perception of them invalidates their entire existence. On the other hand, my trans friends are trans regardless of what one person or another calls them. As you said, a gender dysphoria diagnosis requires actual harm to normal function, right? All these self-proclaimed, self-diagnosed nonbinary people are just a bunch of trend following kiddies as far as I'm concerned.
All this having been said, I couldn't give any less of a stuff if someone wants to identify as nonbinary, because it doesn't concern me. What does concern me is when they push their agenda into law without any basis in reality. I have exactly one nb friend, and she doesn't annoy me stuffless because she doesn't try to push her nonbinary identity to the front of every conversation, so it isn't an issue. But most of them aren't like that. They claim to be nb so they can make it an issue, so they can wield social power like actual trans people.
