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going to try to mostly stay out of the tpot trans discourse, but i have one small thing to add:being forced to go through the wrong puberty is a horrible, traumatizing experience. listen to trans kids.here’s my own story, for anyone who would like to hear it:
i knew i was mentally a girl since i was 7. i tried to let my parents know this, but they ended up laughing me off.a few years later, when i was around 12, i started going through a male puberty, and this began one of the worst time periods of my life.
i couldn’t wait three more years before i could *start* hormone therapy, a second puberty that takes years to complete.i wanted this horrible process to end, even if this meant the end of myself.however, i tried my best not to give up.
i eventually put together a plan to start hormone therapy without going through the medical system.i spent months pouring over wikipedia pages, professional medical guidelines, and posts on online trans communities. i sold my most valuable belongings on craigslist for money.
i obtained the necessary medications outside of the medical system, through means that i will not discuss here.i was terrified, but my alternative was suicide.so, i did everything i possibly could, and hoped that, through some miracle, i would make it through this okay.
despite having considerable health anxiety, the most the most terrifying part was actually the risk of being caught by my parents.i never wanted to find out how they would handle finding out that i’d medically transitioned behind their backs, knowingly disobeying them.
for the first time in my life, i felt like things were getting better as time went on, not worse.it felt like a dream come true. i was finally going to feel comfortable in my own body.it was slow, but the progress that happened every month was encouraging.
i ended up getting caught by my parents mere days after turning 18. that. plus a combination of other factors, led to me running away from my parents a month later.i sometimes wonder how different my life could have been if i had more accepting parents from the start.
we know this stuff works.like all medicine, it has it’s risks. but, in some reporting, these risks have been over exaggerated to push a political agenda.the medical consensus is that transitioning helps far more people than it harms.
wow, i really didn’t expect this many people to see this.elaborating on this tweet: when i was 7, i felt like there had been a mistake, and i had been born in the wrong body. i felt like i was *meant* to be a girl, and it was upsetting that i wasn’t.https://t.co/zrg7WVTv1B