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Whenever I find myself weak and wanting to reach back to the woman I used to be in love with (and whom I cut out of my life in a pretty absolute fashion), I just reread the post where very shortly after our separation she talks about flirting with a man she had a crush on. Then I’m filled with righteous rage and stop myself from reaching back to her.
@radical-slothi am deeply disturbed by terfs who suggest trans people need therapy and not access to hormones and surgery ( if wanted and thoroughly informed and certain about the decision to transition ) despite the evidence that transitioning lessens dysphoria and enables some of us to lead happier, healthier lives. but nah™ they want us to suffer through conversion therapy until we’re so depressed and guilt ridden that we commit suicide or to suffer through being wrongfully institutionalized and medicated.
What studies show this? Almost all of the females I know who transitioned either medically or socially had the same or worse dysphoria afterward. My depression and suicidal thoughts only got easier to deal with once I gave up gender.
^^. Being trans requires you wallow in your dysphoria to unhealthy levels. When I was an FTM, I was miserable because it was all I thought about. Now I managed my dysphoria and I am much more happier and comfortable with my body.
Also this study is old, but this was the study that stopped John Hopkins hospital from preform SRS for 40 years (it changed as of last year, most likely due to them being called transphobic for not providing the surgery). They found that trans people who had it fared no better than those who didnt, meaning the surgery did not help stop dysphoria.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6942832People need help coping with dysphoria. Not everyone wants to transition, can afford to transition, or is physically healthy enough to induce a lifelong hormonal imbalance and undergo multiple invasive surgeries. Some people are too young to transition or their local informed consent hrt mill is making them wait. People in your own community will benefit from psychotherapy for dysphoria management no matter what eventually happens regarding their cosmetic treatments. You’d rather them suffer in the meantime?
John Hopkins figured out comorbities remained post-srs. Affirmation is indulgent, not therapeutic. Dysphoric people deserve better than you seem to think.
Not for nothing, Rowan Feldhaus died at 25 after complications from a hysterectomy which any female on testosterone requires after five years. Not everyone wants to risk their lives. Jazz Jennings can’t get bottom surgery because puberty blockers suppressed penile growth, so she lacks enough tissue to reconstruct. Instead of getting the body she’s wanted since she was 8, she has to accept living with a penis for the rest of her life. Dysphoria management is necessary now and could have helped when she first expressed distress with her male development. There’s so much ableism in your post ignoring the reality of these situations. What does it say that the people you coercively label terfs show more empathy and a realistic risk assessment?
look at my page. i have 86 studies compared to your one, if not more, about hormone and/or sra improving the lives of trans people. @inferior-mirage you have jumped to so many conclusions. i do not think that all trans people have to undergo hormone treatment or bottom surgery. i am well aware of the risks. i’m referring to transphobes who think trans people should never have access to hormones and top/bottom surgeries. i believe trans children should wait to transition and be fully informed and educated on what it entails before doing so later in life. people can die from complications in almost any kind of surgery. no surgery is without risk.I couldn’t find the studies. Was it in the notes?
I do know of a study that says transition increases suicide risk
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/AFSP-Williams-Suicide-Report-Final.pdf
And I don’t have a study for this, but we have to remember sex dysphoria is a mental disorder, in the same branch as body dysmorphia. These disconnects from the body and mind do not improve when surgery is allowed. When a BD patient complains about how ugly and big their nose is (even though it isn’t), do doctors recommend rhinoplasty or various forms of therapy? OFC therapy, because we know that no amount of rhinoplasty will ever be enough to satisfy the patient, because the disconnect is caused by a mental illness. The same goes for sex dysphoria. No amount of hormones and therapy will be enough because we are not addressing the root cause of the dysphoria, just the symptoms. I’ve heard of many trans people taking too much hormones in one dose and hurting themselves and they did this because they wanted more of the hormones effects, even though they are passing. Many post-op trans people are unsatisfied and actually want more done, even if there isn’t anything left to accomplish. I know Blarie White isn’t anyone to write home about, but during a live stream she said something along the lines of “I got everything done…now what?” I believe she’s fully transitioned and passes well, but even she is not content as she’d thought she’d be at the finish line.
This is coming from someone who was trans for 4-5 years and is still dysphoric to this day. People like us deserve to have treatment that addresses the actual problem. We deserve care that will allow us to reconnect our body and mind and not permanently alter it in order to bend to the whims of a mental illness, which we know solves very little. We deserve so much better than hormones that haven’t been studied long term. We deserve better than surgeries that are not aesthetically pleasing and that have high failure rates. We deserve SO much better than doctors makes thousands off of our issues. Doctors at night can go sleep in their mansion while post-op people still suffer. That’s really all
concept: we live in a cute apartment and have many plants and rooms with fairy lights and candles and we can take bubble baths together and make chocolate chip cookies at 1am and no one can tell us not to.
I love you guys but I think a lot of you are the kind of people who are susceptible to falling in with a cult.
i know this was an offhand shitpost, but i couldn’t let this pass by.
as a survivor of a cult: please trust me when I say that the most dangerous mistake people can make wrt cults is thinking there is a special “kind” of person who is susceptible to one
anyone, given the “right” set of circumstances, can be victimized in such a way.
and they don’t always look obvious from the outside, contrary to what you’ve seen on tv and in movies. it’s not always about weird clothes and glassy eyed people.
i thought people who got caught up in cults were stupid, weak-minded, easily led. I was “too smart” to fall for that. but the kinds of people who perpetrate cultish abuse are master manipulators who are very good at sinking their claws into people. like most abusers they know when and how to fuck you up.
cause the thing is, cults are ultimately just a very specific environment for abuse, and if you correctly understand that it’s neither helpful nor appropriate to blame other kinds of abuse survivors for what happened to them, watch how you talk about cults.
Advanced Bonewits’ Cult Danger Evaluation Frame was designed WRT to religious neopagan groups but is applicable to literally any group of folks. read it and keep those signs in your head.
Always reblog. Anyone can fall into a cult or be victimized by a cult-like environment.
Aaaahhh, friday of a full moon. I feel like I gotta do stuff! Lots of stuff, fast, fast, fast, and I’m excited about it. Especially since I’ve been exhausted all week because of too much work at the job and at class.
Plans for today:
*sigh* Good thing I’m feeling energetic today :P
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friendly advice to not revolve your life around one person, one feeling, one place, one memory, one problem. the complexity of life and the diversity of the world is beautiful and you have the right to explore it. do not settle for less. you deserve better.
friendly advice to not revolve your life around one person, one feeling, one place, one memory, one problem. the complexity of life and the diversity of the world is beautiful and you have the right to explore it. do not settle for less. you deserve better.
Lol I just really wanted to draw Keith in a pony tail, and Lance being shocked.
The Spanish says “God help me” (or at least I hope it does lol)
Dawn is Coming
