I don't mean to dwell on this point, but I hadn't even thought of James Harries in years and was genuinely taken aback by how ancient he looks in the photos that were posted a couple of pages back. E.g.:
View attachment 2470785
I assumed I'd mistakenly remembered him as being much younger than he actually is but nope:
View attachment 2470793
That's a
rough 43 36 (the earliest instance of the top photo I can find was posted by Getty in July 2014).
Without devolving into medspergery, every time I hear about the risks of medical transition, it's usually in terms of the heightened risk of disease and premature death for women who subject their bodies to long and heavy courses of virilizing androgenic hormones. If Harries and Yaniv are anything to go by (and their results seem more common than not), the men really don't seem any less ravaged by their transitions.
I'm sure there are confounding variables apart from transition that contribute to the degeneration of their bodies like the more general mental unwellness that lead the Yanivs and Harries to not care for themselves properly in any form (diet, exercise, general salutary habits, etc. Harries has his own background with a badly dysfunctional family, severe mental illness and (sometimes dubious) claims of assault and violent persecution) but, to put it mildly, transitioning really isn't the panacea that trans activists make it out to be — and not just because society is mean and prevents these men from fully enjoying what would otherwise be a joyous transformation for them.
ETA: It's really unsettling how some members of the press were pushing the narrative that, during this period, Emperor Harries was wearing a
fine set of clothes, tyvm. The same British press would savage any real 36-year-old woman who showed up in public looking like this.
