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Breakpoint

Gender Dysphoria vs. Muscle Dysmorphia: Why the Difference?

Breakpoint

Colson Center

Christianity, News Commentary, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

All of the reports correctly treat muscle dysmorphia as a disorder that required helping these men see the goodness of their bodies as they are. Yet these same news outlets treat gender dysphoria as a problem of the body, with treatment that involves body modification, such as hormones and surgery. 

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0:00.0

With a one-minute look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.

0:05.0

The Radio Health Journal podcast recently reported on muscle dysmorphia, a psychological condition of mainly bodybuilders who think they're less muscular than they actually are.

0:15.0

In it, a Harvard psychologist described patients who missed work to obsessively work out, and others who wore baggy clothes to hide what they

0:22.0

think are puny figures.

0:24.4

And it's not just bodybuilders, the New York Times reported earlier this year on what it called

0:28.4

vigorexia, which affects a growing number of teenage boys.

0:32.2

All of these media outlets correctly treated muscle dysmorphia as a disorder that required

0:36.9

helping these men see the goodness

0:38.2

of their bodies as they really are. Yet the very same news outlets treat gender dysphoria

0:43.2

as a problem of the body, with treatment that involves body modification, such as hormones and surgery.

0:50.2

In fact, gender dysphoria is the only dysphoria in which people are told to align their

0:54.1

bodies with their minds,

0:56.2

instead of helping their minds accept the truth of their bodies.

1:00.0

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

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