In general, I'm way more chill with trans people than the average person here and have met plenty of people in that group that are lovely and I have no objection to an adult making an informed decision to transition.
Obviously I don't know Thunt personally but from everything I've seen online, Thunt transitioning at this point and time was the worst possible decision to make. Thunts brain is seriously fucked up and transitioning is not going to help their issues which seem WAY greater than dysphoria. I don't know if Thunt would ever be in the right mindset but I really don't think this is going to help.
More details on the tax audit? Never heard that one.
The problem with the explosion of later aged transitioners is how so many mentally vulnerable people are using it as an escape from other deep seated issues. When they're dealing with the malaise of depression, anxiety, and the dissatisfaction with their life that comes with having constantly struggled with mental illness, transitioning is a great escape for a few years.
It's almost like a cult initiation, first they can cast off everything they were before and blame the sadness and failures of their prior life on the fact they were trans all along. Then they're love bombed by the positive reinforcement of the community, doctors, supportive family etc. Even negative reactions can fuel positive feelings, because they give them a cause. Then they have all kinds of physical, medical, and almost ceremonial social milestones that give them the sense that they are working toward something, accomplishing things, becoming, and even if they're not feeling great all the time just yet, at the end of 'their transition journey' they've been promised the self-actualization that's always eluded them.
But five years down the road, when the new vag smell has finally been douched out of the relaid carpeting, they're usually just as miserable, if not more so. Because all the plastic surgery in the world can't fix clinical depression or a personality disorder.
If people want to live as the other gender for the rest of their lives, they should be treated the same as anyone else: rights, basic respect, common courtesy, understanding, etc. But I hate how we're no longer allowed to be critical of the judgement of any individual as soon as they pick up that trans sticker and slap it on, no matter how obviously mentally ill they are.
In Thunt's post on his transition he says 'pretending' to be a man was like wearing a Halloween costume that didn't fit. And that coming out was taking the costume off and being 'herself' and said,
I'm amazed at the way my depression and self hatred have just melted away. I feel confident, energetic, social and creative. " IE all the things he's wanted to be his entire life.
That is not going to last. He doesn't realize that he's just put on a new costume, and when he gets over the euphoria of it, he'll start to feel the gaps where the costume and his true depressive self don't meet. Everyone really lives their lives in a series of costumes. No one is totally comfortable 'in their own skin'. Get over it.
