This has been bubbling up in my system for a while, but i need to say it. Gender reassignment surgery is a very serious and incredibly difficult thing to through and shouldn't be taken lightly. It's a permanent change to your body in a lot of ways and you can't just simply go back if you feel like it. Not many people understand this, but you only have one life and one body to live with, you can't just reroll yourself and change your body on the fly. The only people who should consider gender reassignment are ones that have fully exhausted every other avenue. What really pains me about all this is that going transgender has been seen as a fashion statement more than anything. This isn't metrosexuality or dressing in drag, you can't turn of trans whenever you feel like it. If you go through with the surgery and the incredibly difficult hormonal replacement therapy that will takes months out of your life, but you suddenly decide it's not for you, you can't go back completely. If you're male, your testosterone levels are completely screwed up and your genitals will never truly recover, but if you got to the stage of removing your penis then there's no way you can get your penis back. If you're female, you've screwed up your estrogen levels too much and will have a new appendage on your crotch that nobody will ever fall for because it's literally looks like a hairy third leg with string cutting off circulation towards the end to simulate what looks like the tip of a penis.
It fucking destroys my soul knowing people are just encouraging underaged people to try and get gender reassignment surgery because they're curious about being gay or bi or whatever. It's way too serious of a thing to push onto a child who's still discovering himself, it's a permanent change to his/her entire system and you can't just go back if it's not for you. There's a reason why trans people have a 50% suicide attempt rate, it's because they realized it wasn't for them and now they're just like this now. If you're thinking of going transgender, consider literally every avenue possible before hormonal replacement therapy and surgery. Go metrosexual, drag, or so the things the opposite gender does and see if it fits for you. Surgery is only meant as a last resort. I know there are/were a bunch of people in the military who were going to get deployed and suddenly decided they were getting gender reassignment surgery so that they could get out of deploying because they were not fit for service until the months long hormonal treatment was done. They've done this on a whim, which means they didn't put much thinking to it, which means they absolutely will have regretted later in life, if there even is a later. Guns and suicidal tendencies don't mix well, and if someone in infantry cannot be trusted with a gun or threatens suicide, they will 100% kick you to the curb and leave you on your own with 0 help. This goes for every military on earth, they will not tolerate you if you threaten to kill yourself.
I know these exact things have been said a hundred times over by people in this very thread and also by psychologists throughout the years, but it needs to be said more. I know there are trans people who visit kiwi farms daily so they can get angry and say that we're homophobic or whatever, but this comment is for you and all the others that just tell people to go trans without giving any thought.
Listen to me when i say this
You can stop being metrosexual, drag, and wearing makeup at any time. You can't stop being trans. Gender reassignment will change you forever. There's a reason why the suicide attempt rate is 50%. Think about this before even considering gender reassignment.
