This shit about needing to be encouraged just gets me, is like encouraging someone to be an alcoholic and then having the entire world pretend he is sober.
Why should he not be encouraged to deal with dysphoria by not feeding in to it?
Sure it may not be fun to not give in to your urges but being a medical patient for your entire life, have hormones that will drastically cut short your lifespan and maybe even surgery where you cut off healthy organs with a high chance of being unable to orgasm is freaking worse. After the short term euphoria wears off he is so fucked.
The fact that he had to be encouraged to do it tells me he could have handled it without transitioning.
I completely agree. Even if medical transition were the most effective treatment that we had for gender dysphoria (I doubt that it is), its risks and harms would necessitate finding a better treatment path. Yet, curiously transitioning is strongly promoted as the only viable treatment, with all other treatments classified as "conversion therapy."
This shit about needing to be encouraged just gets me, is like encouraging someone to be an alcoholic and then having the entire world pretend he is sober.
Why should he not be encouraged to deal with dysphoria by not feeding in to it? Sure it may not be fun to not give in to your urges but being a medical patient for your entire life, have hormones that will drastically cut short your lifespan and maybe even surgery where you cut off healthy organs with a high chance of being unable to orgasm is freaking worse. After the short term euphoria wears off he is so fucked.
The fact that he had to be encouraged to do it tells me he could have handled it without transitioning.
I completely agree. Even if medical transition were the most effective treatment that we had for gender dysphoria (I doubt that it is), its risks and harms would necessitate finding a better treatment path. Yet, curiously transitioning is strongly promoted as the only viable treatment, with all other treatments classified as "conversion therapy."