Instead you have 10-20% disabled people basically having to deal with their normal illnesses in addition to this other shit. {...} those problems are because the world is transphobic.
This is more or less the part of the whole thing I hate the most about it, the pressure politics surrounding it and the
actual harm it's doing to folks who'd otherwise be sorting it out effectively in therapy. In the previous century we thought of treating homosexuality through lobotomy, and while I don't think therapy isn't generally something you need to accept that you're gay these days all of the underlying issues pointing to "cut your dick off" could probably be sorted out there.
I've always thought of the reasoning being rooted somewhere in an unresolved sense of shame or inability to accept yourself because of environmental pressure around you, leading you to believe at a fundamental level that you as you currently are, are unacceptable. I think it is, through no fault of their own, a shortsighted non-solution that doesn't engage with what's got you in a bind inside, and the only disgusting part about it to me is all the peer pressure that gets pushed on people who are just plain confused about shit (whether it's well-founded or not), and more disgusting are the doctors that go for the 'lobotomy' solution for some cash and leave the people they butcher out to dry. To make a stupid comparison, it's like the whole gluten-free thing; there just
can't be that many people suddenly suffering from this thing out of nowhere in the last couple decades.
Sorry to PL, but this has been rolling around in my head for weeks now and I gotta spit it out. This is stuff I've had to wrap my brain around more and more lately as I see more people I used to know earlier in life doing this, more than I feel is 'natural' for a mental condition as rare and understudied as an
actual identity disorder. It's been more difficult to mentally wrestle with than I'd have expected, since these were people I loved as they were that are just gone now. I'm not even allowed to cherish who they were anymore because it'll just get me ostracized. I'm not even meaning to come from an angle of shame, it's just hard to watch old friends pervert the image of themselves in this way for some shit peer pressure. There were no problems with you just being a flowery dude.