You can say, "Republicans are mentally ill", "Democrats are mentally ill", "MAGA is mentally ill", "Evangicals are mentally ill" (and I'm abbreviating mentally ill because someone got very mad that I referred to the group with flag with (the 5 stripes; all of them are light colors, lasagna style; but they're all light shades of pink, blue, and one white stripe in the middle) as mentally ill. Is it illegal to be mentally ill? No. Is it unethical to be mentally ill? No. So why would they care about being called mentally ill? Is it job access? Because if so, then they would argue that everyone who's mentally ill should have a harder time finding a job; I'm not sure they want to set that precedent. You can say, "being trans isn't a choice.", alright, well being autistic isn't a choice. Not one autistic person I've met cares if you call autistic capitas mentally ill. If you call autistic capitas mentally ill, then nobody cares; not even the aspie. You call a trans person mentally ill, the people who get mad are the trans person and the trans person's family. You call a Canadian mentally ill, and anyone who even knows a Canadian gets mad. The Canadians and the trans have so much indirect power among white liberals; autistics got none. And until you can go to a job application and it asks, "Do you have a disability?" and Aspergers isn't on there, asperger capitas will have zero indirect power (which the trans like to call, "allies").
There needs to be a specific definition for, "mentally ill". I'm thinking a clear definition can be, "Has had the unacted urge to murder someone else in the past year." Then I hope most trans people aren't mentally ill by that definition, I hope most aspies aren't; I hope most bipolar people aren't. By that definition, I wouldn't be mentally ill (and that's just not internet talk).
But someone who has had the urge to murder someone else in the past year I think should be classified as mentally ill.