Subjecting rights to the evaluation of a mental health professional would only lead to the diagnosis and stigmatization of normal human behaviors as mental illnesses according to the whims and convenience of the ruling class.
As a transgender person, you should be more sensitive to the notion that aspects of your identity could be stigmatized and labeled as objectively deficient and place you in danger of involuntary institutionalization, with subsequent loss of rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysaesthesia_aethiopica
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry
Subjecting rights to the evaluation of a mental health professional would only lead to the diagnosis and stigmatization of normal human behaviors as mental illnesses according to the whims and convenience of the ruling class.
As a transgender person, you should be more sensitive to the notion that aspects of your identity could be stigmatized and labeled as objectively deficient and place you in danger of involuntary institutionalization, with subsequent loss of rights.