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The lived experience of gender dysphoria tells you SOMETHING is going on with the person experiencing it, but it doesn't tell you what is going on. This is a consequential difference.
Someone having a panic attack is certain they're dying. They may be quite convinced they're having a heart attack. That's their lived experience. It's absolutely wrong, and it would be deadly to treat them as though they were anyway.
Of course, in practice, what's required is handling their reaction in the sense that the emotions that they're experiencing are themselves real. They're really experiencing those. They're not crazy. But their diagnosis of the situation isn't just wrong but is dangerously wrong.
"As a person experiencing a [panic attack], I need to be given emergency drugs, defibrillation, and/or surgery or I'm going to die! It's my lived experience!"
No, you need evidence and proper treatment to the evidence.
Replace w "gender dysphoria" or "racism," mutatis mutandis.
No, you need evidence and proper treatment to the evidence.
Replace w "gender dysphoria" or "racism," mutatis mutandis.
A broader expression of this phenomenon that's more apt to Critical Theory is someone who is just slightly hypochondriac reading WebMD and convincing themselves they must have cancer. Critical Theory teaches people, and kids, to think like hypochondriacs and gives them WebOppress
