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Emails Reveal How a Hospital Bowed to Political Pressure to Stop Treating Trans Teens
(www.propublica.org)
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Nobody is forcing trans people to go through medical transition. But medical transition is what helps them relieve their mental anguish.
Being transgender is not a mental illness.
if destroying the physical and chemical makeup of one's body is necessary to make them feel "right" in it, then it's definitely not a non-issue either, the fact that someone feels that way in the first place goes against their genetic and chemical makeup, as well as their physical formations resulting from that makeup, which gives you the undeniable truth of what you "actually" are, rather than any thoughts or emotions one might have.
The emotions are entirely and completely immovable, the body is not; this treatment is the best of a shit situation. And even if we could transplant our brains into different bodies entirely, you'd just start calling us Frankensteins Monster
I strongly disagree. Our minds are the most malleable part of ourselves and should be the focus of any fixes the medical field innovates toward. The fact that you feel they are so immovable is proof that the medical field is failing to truly fix what plagues so many people with those feelings. If the proper treatment target had been identified from the beginning, you wouldn't be suffering in the first place.
Why do you think people actively choose to adapt their bodies to better fit the idea of themselves if they could just "change their minds"? And do you really think most haven't tried that first?
This to me feels very much like shaming a depressed person for taking antidepressants by telling them "the medical field has failed you by giving you pills, have you considered just being happy?"
I'm very much not shaming anyone, I'm trying to tell you that the "treatment" you're receiving is actively detrimental to your body and only exists because the medical field doesn't care enough about you or is too scared to give you a real fix. I understand that you might find any sort of criticism as an attack against you, and I apologize for it, but the truth is that you should be demanding more from the system that's using you without you realizing it.
I do appreciate your concern but what do you think is the "real fix"?
Educate yourself https://genderdysphoria.fyi/
This is an attempt to normalize an issue people are suffering from. This is something that should be addressed and fixed, rather than left for the victim to deal with as if it's something acceptable to be forced to suffer in the era we live in, with the medical innovations we (should) have.