Maybe I'm not trans?

Yes, dysphoria is solved by thinking differently. I know people who have healed from eating disorders produced by body dysphoria because of counseling and therapy. If someone can convince you that you were born perfect but have become psychologically distracted from Reality, then there is no room for the thought "I was born flawed, and need to change my body to feel normal inside."

The anxiety and depression that accompany neurosis come from mental friction against who we really are, which obviously sounds like nonsense if you disbelieve that there is something that we essentially are.

If you accepted that there is something unchangeable that we actually are, and deeper yet; that there are essentially Real things that underly culture and biology, the problem of dysphoria would be as simple as accepting and loving that, rather than conforming to any finite, mental image. This is the very aim of psychology, called Self-Actualization. And the aim of religion is to get people to actualize the Meta-'Self' that is essential to existence.

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