Yes, but I meant it's a condition existing at birth, since they were born in the wrong body.
Ok. So the government/insurance companies pay for reassignment surgeries because it's a mental disorder. Yet, LGBT groups keep saying that transgenderism is not a mental disorder. However, there is no way insurant companies would want to pay for it if it weren't a mental disorder, otherwise one could argue that they should also pay for regular plastic surgery.
So LGBT activists want the surgeries to be paid by insurance/government but they don't want gender identity disorder/dysphoria/whatever term they come up with next to be classified as a mental disorder. There's a pretty clear contradiction here.
Basically, they want to have their cake and eat it.
There's no way we should advocate for surgery to "correct their birth defect", the suicide rates of post-surgery trans people is absolutely brutal. We should advocate therapy for it.
There's something called body integrity identity disorder, which is people who think they're amputees born in an integral body. So according to the logic here, government/insurance companies should pay for their limbs to be chopped off.