dysphoria is a kind of anxiety which is a disorder but being trans isn’t an illness. there’s other kinds of dysphoria not related to gender. it describes a kind of anxiety disorder. that’s the illness, not being trans. being medicated/treated for anxiety and gender dysphoria will not make someone be no longer trans. it is a treatment for the anxiety connected to it
i think a lot of people don’t realize that dysphoria isn’t just a gender thing and that it’s a category of anxiety that can be caused by many things. another kind that’s more common than people think is rejection sensitive dysphoria which can be connected to adhd. and so people just assume that dysphoria is only a trans thing and then draw a false equivalence