I will preface this by saying that I think this advocacy has to happen and these conversations need to be had. Getting kids the care they need is obviously more important than any feelings it may bring up for me and I’ll continue to say these things when advocating for trans kids.
That all said, like the title says,
sometimes I get dysphoric hearing people talk about why they need puberty blockers. People saying if they had to go though the wrong puberty they would have killed themselves or never been happy with their bodies. And that specifically makes me feel a bit icky about my own body. I’ve been told I’ll never pass because my body is just set this way because I went through estrogen puberty. And some things will be set because of that, like I’m gonna need top surgery and my shape probably would be so pear like if I’d had puberty blockers. But even if puberty blockers were readily available I wasn’t ready to accept myself until I was an adult and my parents wouldn’t have let me take them. Idk
sometime it feels like people talk about post-puberty trans bodies as permanently deformed or “marked” and yah it makes me feel kinda gross. I’m wondering if anyone else ever feels this way.