The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

This isn't flippant. "You aren't trans because you were tortured as a child for being trans" is mundanely common

I don't think it's saying that trauma is a disqualifier, rather that people can misdiagnose trauma issues for dysphoria in themselves.

One tends to imply the other

Surely there's an important difference there?

To what? It will tend to increase instances of child abuse. The exact nature of the mechanism seems unimportant.

What?? If we know there's trauma, we know they should receive therapy for it. Are you saying we should affirm gender dysphoria in kids with trauma without questioning if it even played a part in them feeling that way??

I'm saying exactly what I typed, which is that if trauma always disqualifies then parents with gender variant children will more often choose to traumatize them to camouflage the legitimacy of their gender and prevent them from transitioning.

But no one's saying that trauma always disqualifies? You're strawmanning the argument. Also the point is that trauma isn't equal to being gender dysphoric. There should be rigorous assessment as to which path is the most appropriate. No one's saying DISREGARD abuse or dysphoria.