The statistics of suicidality in those who identify as the opposite gender, AFTER "gender-affirming therapy" are still at around 40%, from the last time I looked.
There is co-morbidity between gender dysphoria and suicidality. The surgery, even when "successful", absolutely does NOT move the needle on the underlying mental illness that is gender dysphoria/body dysmorphia.
I think a huge part about this is based on how each individual FEELS, and whether or not they feel validated. I've seen thousands and thousands of examples of post-op individuals who absolutely do not even slightly resemble the gender they were aiming for, which is absolutely no surprise, and that doesn't exactly help them after they spent tens of thousands of dollars on irreparably mutilating their bodies.
The few who can afford it who suffer that experience and want to "go back" have told myriad horror stories about their entire journey, and the recurring theme is the same.
Self-loathing, isolation, a sense of disconnectedness and a heightened desire to unalive onesself.
I don't think these patterns are coincidences.
I do not believe the treatment for gender dysphoria is either societal enabling or harmful surgical and hormone treatments. There has to be a better way to stop people with this mental illness from hurting themselves, in one way or another.
If you really cared about them, you would try to heal them, not be an enabler.
Gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia are less than a hop away. Fuck a skip and a jump. If you had a friend who TRULY TRULY believes that he was born in the wrong body because he had two arms, when he should have been born with one, would you support his efforts to chop off a healthy arm? So he could be on the outside what he FELT like inside?
Answer that honestly, folks. Would you let a friend become a permanent and irreversible amputee because his body dysmorphia told him to sever a limb?
With that answer in mind, please explain to me what the difference is. I'd love to learn more.
There is co-morbidity between gender dysphoria and suicidality. The surgery, even when "successful", absolutely does NOT move the needle on the underlying mental illness that is gender dysphoria/body dysmorphia.
I think a huge part about this is based on how each individual FEELS, and whether or not they feel validated. I've seen thousands and thousands of examples of post-op individuals who absolutely do not even slightly resemble the gender they were aiming for, which is absolutely no surprise, and that doesn't exactly help them after they spent tens of thousands of dollars on irreparably mutilating their bodies.
The few who can afford it who suffer that experience and want to "go back" have told myriad horror stories about their entire journey, and the recurring theme is the same.
Self-loathing, isolation, a sense of disconnectedness and a heightened desire to unalive onesself.
I don't think these patterns are coincidences.
I do not believe the treatment for gender dysphoria is either societal enabling or harmful surgical and hormone treatments. There has to be a better way to stop people with this mental illness from hurting themselves, in one way or another.
If you really cared about them, you would try to heal them, not be an enabler.
Gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia are less than a hop away. Fuck a skip and a jump. If you had a friend who TRULY TRULY believes that he was born in the wrong body because he had two arms, when he should have been born with one, would you support his efforts to chop off a healthy arm? So he could be on the outside what he FELT like inside?
Answer that honestly, folks. Would you let a friend become a permanent and irreversible amputee because his body dysmorphia told him to sever a limb?
With that answer in mind, please explain to me what the difference is. I'd love to learn more.
