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Some of what you say is true, but what's also true is that for a number of conditions, evidence based talk-therapy can ease or cure psychiatric symptoms. Anxiety disorders, trauma disorders, OCD, and borderline personality disorder, for example, are all treatable with talk therapy, which implies learned behavior may underpin each of them. Depression is more tricky, as there are people who have fallen into learned patterns of behavior, but also people who have serious "brain chemistry" issues
Also I think you misunderstand what gender dysphoria is as far as the DSM is concerned...gender dysphoria is a feeling of stress related to gender expression as it relates to one's society and support system, it's not defining being trans as "mentally ill." Someone who's trans does not have gender dysphoria unless:
The condition is associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
Talk therapy also helps cancer patients and people with biological chronic illness. So does exercise. Doesn’t mean these are mental illnesses.
The distress though isn’t the brunt of the condition. If you were of the opposite gender that people see you as you would be stressed too. Same tactic was used in the past to brand being gay as a mental illness. In my country’s textbook the definition also included “severe distress”
You still misunderstand, a significant number of people who are trans never experience gender dysphoria. Experiencing distress is the brunt of gender dysphoria, without distress, there is no diagnosis, you're just trans.
Almost universally in the DSM, diagnoses are qualified by "clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning."
Helps them with what? Anxiety? Depression? There are a lot of different people out there, and just how only a subset of people who experience a trauma develop PTSD, only a subset of people with a chronic illness will experience clinically significant emotional distress and meet criteria for a certain psych diagnosis because of it.