diff --git a/mypy/plugins/dataclasses.py b/mypy/plugins/dataclasses.py
index 90c983b0bacd..50e9c927df9d 100644
--- a/mypy/plugins/dataclasses.py
+++ b/mypy/plugins/dataclasses.py
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@
     TempNode,
     TypeAlias,
     TypeInfo,
-    TypeVarExpr,
     Var,
 )
 from mypy.plugin import ClassDefContext, FunctionSigContext, SemanticAnalyzerPluginInterface
@@ -291,22 +290,6 @@ def transform(self) -> bool:
                 self._api, self._cls, "__init__", args=args, return_type=NoneType()
             )
 
-        if (
-            decorator_arguments["eq"]
-            and info.get("__eq__") is None
-            or decorator_arguments["order"]
-        ):
-            # Type variable for self types in generated methods.
-            obj_type = self._api.named_type("builtins.object")
-            self_tvar_expr = TypeVarExpr(
-                SELF_TVAR_NAME,
-                info.fullname + "." + SELF_TVAR_NAME,
-                [],
-                obj_type,
-                AnyType(TypeOfAny.from_omitted_generics),
-            )
-            info.names[SELF_TVAR_NAME] = SymbolTableNode(MDEF, self_tvar_expr)
-
         # Add <, >, <=, >=, but only if the class has an eq method.
         if decorator_arguments["order"]:
             if not decorator_arguments["eq"]:
diff --git a/test-data/unit/check-dataclasses.test b/test-data/unit/check-dataclasses.test
index 887a9052d0b9..e51a66b953a7 100644
--- a/test-data/unit/check-dataclasses.test
+++ b/test-data/unit/check-dataclasses.test
@@ -2594,3 +2594,15 @@ class B2(B1):  # E: A NamedTuple cannot be a dataclass
     pass
 
 [builtins fixtures/tuple.pyi]
+
+[case testOrderedDataclassSelfTVARNotExist]
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+
+@dataclass(order=True)
+class A:
+    b: int
+
+a = A(1)
+a._DT  # E: "A" has no attribute "_DT"
+
+[builtins fixtures/tuple.pyi]
diff --git a/test-data/unit/fixtures/tuple.pyi b/test-data/unit/fixtures/tuple.pyi
index d01cd0034d26..22462023aad4 100644
--- a/test-data/unit/fixtures/tuple.pyi
+++ b/test-data/unit/fixtures/tuple.pyi
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ _Tco = TypeVar('_Tco', covariant=True)
 class object:
     def __init__(self) -> None: pass
     def __new__(cls) -> Self: ...
+    def __eq__(self, other: object) -> bool: pass
 
 class type:
     def __init__(self, *a: object) -> None: pass