Agitated-Action4759
Have you ever considered that the way you are speaking right now might, in fact, provide the enemy with just as much ammunition than OP's own experiences? Instead of acknowledging that sometimes these mistakes happen, as in any medical situation, you are responding with hatred and hostility.
BelldandyUSA
Let me tell you this: Trans people don't owe you (or anybody) perfection. When we take medical decisions we perform them at the same rate of stupidity as cisgender people. That is true.
But in this environment, in this genocidal atmosphere, if a single trans person wins a trophy, we are accused of destroying a whole universe of people's sports rights. If a single trans person goes to jail, we are all criminals. If a single trans person detransitions, now we are all mental unfit to take any decision. If a single trans person commits the crime of raping a cis woman in a prison, then we all deserve to go to a men's jail. If a single transgender person fails at the University, now we are all undoubtedly prone to fail and our applications must be double scrutinized. I've seen the last one happening in foreign countries so I added it to the ever growing list.
This is the level of illogicality, of total disrespect for statistics, the denial of science facts in order to enshrine religious bias and phobias by law
Agitated-Action4759
So…trans people shouldn’t win trophies or take classes with steep grading curves at university?
OhDaniGal
If her pledge is real, she not only fooled her therapist (or they didn't do their job), she ignored the doctors warnings, and she discarded the leaflets, waivers and papers. Now she regrets her little c*nt on a mirror. Shall we celebrate it? Shall my sisters be attacked by conservatives using her case as an excuse?
I've been hearing this same argument for years. There's always more justification for why "it's the wrong time" to deal with improving our access to care by dealing with the doctors and therapists who enforce One True Way transition. I lived it - I got to deal with therapists and doctors who looked up my salary and informed me that "you are paid enough that you have no excuse for not having SRS" before they would even agree to let me start HRT then interrogating me at every appointment after that about my progress toward surgery or, as they called it "complete transition." After years of being denied HRT for months at a time to "encourage" me to have surgery I gave in because it seemed like the lesser mistake, but it never should have been that for any of us. Cis people being controlling of trans bodies is nothing new and just because they're WPATH members doesn't make them immune.
The same arguments continued as I did work to get informed consent access to HRT into those same cities and as I did political activism against the laws at issue.
I gained genital dysphoria from having SRS. It happens sometimes. In my case it's impossible to say how much would have been regardless of my result and how much was because I had a bad result which my surgeon immediately refused to help (my requests for consultations were refused) and I recently exhausted the possibilities for treatment from other doctors. Being unable to orgasm, an example chosen because it is my result, is a non-issue for some trans people but for others, like me, it's extremely difficult to live with. I've spent years in therapy to work on how to live with it. I even had consultations on phalloplasty post-vaginoplasty but decided against it for multiple reasons.