When a transgender
individual uses their
gender dysphoria as an excuse to get what they want or to emotionally manipulate another individual. Weaponized dysphoria is commonly used against parents, friends, other transgender people, and
romantic interests. Sometimes weaponized dysphoria can come in the form of putting down another transgender person's appearance to make themselves feel better.
Most transgender people do not use weaponized dysphoria, however the ones that do will negatively impact other transgender people and people's view on transgender people as a whole.
A transgender person is using
weaponized dysphoria when they accuse a cisgender person of making them feel dysphoric and ugly because he or she does not want to date them.
A transgender boyfriend telling his transgender
girlfriend that she has no boobs and has the squarest jaw he's ever seen is an example of
weaponized dysphoria because he is purposefully increasing her dysphoria to lessen his own.