What I was talking about in the post you quoted is probably one of the thing I found 'bullshitty' from Blanchard - that he thinks AGPs benefits from transition long term, that they are more happier and even support them to indulge in their fantasy as long as they're self aware. (I wonder where is Anne Lawrence now..) So it depends on what he really means when he says this, but I found it hard to believe that you really should let these people transition because of an obvious fetish. There's also problems with his rather strict view of his typology when in reality it can be much more complicated but that is another story all over.
As you said, this is like an addiction, you have to go to more extremes to get off on it, so the high of trooning out eventually wears off. And they tend to not be able to cope with themselves eventually. As I have discussed in a few posts before about 'hypocritical regretting troons' who seem to speak out against transgender surgeries and activism, yet they seem to have an obvious 'blind spot' that think that they're legit opposite sex in the way that doesn't match up, an obvious cope so they don't feel like they made a mistake - even Bruce Jenner is now regretting his dick chop and getting therapy for it. A lot from him seem like the high already has wear off but he can't escape the public face when everyone was already celebrating him.
But then... we don't really see much from aging troon, my friend is still fairly young and so a lot of people we are making fun of in this thread.. I don't know how long they can go with their pretend game. I guess i'm just a bit worried about my friend.
Thank you for your response. Blanchard appears to be an outlier in his beliefs, because the top experts in gender dysphoria/trans shit, all agree that transitioning should not be an option, does not help, and that instead the best treatment is to try to get the patients to accept themselves as they are, and to find and treat the underlying causes behind their dysphoria, and if it's clear it's AGP, to treat that, not to encourage them.
I honestly think that pretty much everyone feels gender dysphoria, and most of the time it's short term, and resolves on it's own. Though I was very much a girly girl when I was very young, I'd also imagine myself as a boy, because back then, boys were the ones who were respected and were portrayed to do badass/heroic shit, and girls were cast as ones who always needed saving. Again, I liked being a girl, but I did feel that I should be a boy because I liked masculine interests as well, and only boys were capable of that.
Then I saw Xena, Reboot, Sailor Moon, Mulan,, etc, and I realized, women were badass, even more so because they defied the gender stereotypes, and didn't have to be unattractive or lesser than men to do so. I really miss do miss the 90s early 2000s, where it was acknowledged that women were physically different from men, but that didn't mean we were lesser.
