Gender Oppositional Disorder occurs when a person opposes the conference of their biological gender on their person. Typically, they insist that they be called by a new name they have chosen for themselves and along with that, imaginary pronouns. They alter their appearance so as to confuse other’s attempts to correctly discern their gender. Often times they will cut their hair short and dye it blue or purple. This behavior often results in negative consequences such as social isolation, lack of development of social integration, sleeplessness, and depression. It is more common is women than men and manifests itself primarily between ages 8 and 18.
People with gender oppositional disorder subconsciously believe that their adoption of a non-binary gender profile confers upon them a certain moral superiority. This superiority is necessary in order to counterbalance their sense of guilt and shame. Without this balance, they would dissociate because they cannot come to grips with the severity of their own innate evil. They know themselves to be a good person, but their sense of disgust at the sins they have committed disallows their person to the same person who is responsible for so severe a sin. Therefore the sense of superiority due to gender fluidity, which their peer group praises them for, cancels out their sense of guilt. These people are typically very shallow when it comes to self reflection, at least on this topic, so as to keep up the inner ruse. You will find on them external markers of dissociation with their gender such as will make them appear at odds with societal notions of appearance, as they have chosen to lean into their differences and magnify them. Society typically finds them to be ugly; indeed this alone can be the soles underlying cause for the disorder. In the age of Instagram and instant physical comparison, it is to these ones as though the sin of not being beautiful must be atoned for. Other “sins” include being white, wealthy, educated, having feelings of attraction for the people of the same sex, having certain physical or personality traits that are typically associated with the opposite gender, being sexually active at a young age either as a victim, abuser, or both. Often times this person has tried other ways to cope with the disorder such as cutting or suicidal actions. If allowed access to drugs, they are prone to abusing them as a way to run away from self-reflection and the cognitive dissonance that would occur were they to own up to their sins.
Advanced stages of this disorder will see the patient embracing non-traditional sexual relationships such a bisexuality, homosexuality, open relationships, furry sex, and BDSM.
Treatment
Traditional psychological counseling is ineffective if the patient has demonstrated the willingness to further dissociate from reality; typically in the form of multiple personalities or furry behavior.
For these, it is easier to change reality rather than face up to it.
One possible path to a cure is if they find a path to forgiveness of sins outside of themselves, such as offered by religion. Specifically, a religion which infers forgiveness without the patient having to perform acts of contrition. This is because of acts of contrition can make up for their sins, they will be more inclined to do those which are outside of religion, such as acts of social Justice. This can take the form of deepening sexual or social relationships with members of a minority or protected class, or attending marches and demonstrations with their peer group. The more isolated patients may be active online “combating hate”; taking it upon themselves to find and rail against with vitriolic speech, any and everything which has supported out contributed their sense of sin. It could be traditional gender roles, to which they attach the epithet “cis”. Or perhaps the “patriarchy” which essentially is the quintessential boogeyman against which they must rail, as it is the system which has defined the morality which condemned them of sin in the first place. Everything associated with that morality must go. This leads them to insist upon others that they adopt their new reality, to the goal of changing the rules of the game such that what was once a sin is now praiseworthy. They will insist you use their pronouns and approve of their lifestyle choices because to not do so would be to dismantle the entire reality structure they have put into place. Therefore they adopt rote caustic responses to this, so that they do not have to delve into deep thoughts or logic. Indeed they will exhibit shallow if any reasoning and are full of contradictions in their logic.
Other forms of treatment may be effective if the patient shows a willingness to embrace reality. If the patient has been a victim of something outside of their control, which they then internalized, traditional therapeutic techniques may be applied in order to get the patient to believe that they Genesis off their sinful offenses was outside of themselves and they were not responsible for the path they have taken. However, this should only be used as a starting point; next reach and every undesirable behavior must be addressed in therapy systematically in order to unravel the web of deceit they have spun. Finally, the patient needs to have a way to deal with the portion of their sin that actually did come from within. To forgive themselves for the naïveté which led to their abuse; their continuation and enhancement of their sinful behaviors; their biological enjoyment of the sexual abuse, etc.
Depending on how long the patient has had this condition, this can be a long and expensive process. Without treatment, the disorder typically progresses to the point where the person acts as though regarding their own domain, they are God. That is to say - they make up their own morality, truth, good and evil.
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