Scientific American's departing editor and the politicization of science

It's similar to how if you think heterosexuality or homosexuality are choices due to your own experience, that's not everyone's experience, and you're probably bisexual...congratulations.

Even though there are only two sex chromosomes, issues with them can cause people who are physically intersex.

Then there's all the complexity of the sense of self. Some people could feel they have the 'wrong' body and be fine with that. Some can't.

-Heterosexual male tired of oversimplifications

Affirming a delusion was never the correct response to treating mental illness. We should stop pretending their delusions are real, if we really want to help them.

It is completely different if it is a physical disorder, but this is not the case in vast majority of cases.

What are the delusions that you speak of? Because it seems to me that you are mixing up identity and illness.

Also: if a identity or an emotion is real to me, does it not become real through that act itself?