Wallace
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- Jun 23, 2015
Puberty's distressing for most kids, I'd say. Nobody likes the boners and bleeding thing when they start, it's scary when your body's changing and you're expected to grow up and be an adult. It's especially scary for girls growing tits and suddenly men old enough to be their dads start perving on them. It probably is only like 1 in 100,000 kids who really would've been transsexuals in the old days, but there's a lot of kids who are just turning to it because it offers a promise of staying a kid for longer, or not having to deal with growing up as your actual sex.
These kids should be writing bad poetry or drinking cheap cider in the park, or doing other stupid cringey but harmless shit to manage teen angst. Or seeing child mental health services if it's worse than that. They shouldn't be put on Lupron and carved up. If they'd been around in the '90s they'd have had eating disorders, in the '00s they'd have been cutting, this is just the latest teenage mental illness. But at least those other kinds of self harm aren't treated with confirmation ("yeah, you really ARE fat and deserve to cut yourself up, here, have some razors and diet pills"), and not with surgery. That's why this one's worse.
It's much easier to create a fantasy alter ego to unshackle yourself from all of those bad feelings. Unfortunately, this doesn't work in the long run, since the underlying issues go unaddressed.