We Need to Hold the LW Gatekeepers Accountable
We Need to Hold the LW Gatekeepers Accountable
This further proves the case that this post was talking about https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/14003044
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There are more regrets regarding knee surgeries than there are for gender transitions, statistically speaking. Not to mention that detransitions are often a result of the transphobia present in our society.
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Also some of the detransitioners face a lot of ostracism from their communities and are being threatened to “stay in line or else” to push the anti-trans message.
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Nevermind surgeries, it's hard to find anything with a <1% regret rate
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Idk. There have been cases where people have regretted having the treatment. They are few compared to the number of people who think that the treatment was the best thing they ever did, but they do exist. I guess that being trans might cause some effects, like people being mean and bigoted or just the stress of knowing that you don’t fit in to what society seem to expect you to. I think prioritizing mental support through therapy might be a good start before the physical treatment. It will be good for both those that would regret the treatment but also for those that will get all sorts of weird interactions with others during the transition.
Is this the comment you're talking about?
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Tacking gender dysphoria is part of taking care one’s health and trans adults can make informed consent about their lives.
Therapists are not needed in most cases.
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... most psychs I've met are reluctant to prescribe antidepressants even to folk with a medically verifiable history of suicide without simultaneous therapy.
Tackling depression is taking care of one's health, and depressed adults can make informed consent about their lives, but that doesn't automatically mean medical professionals, especially psychs, are ready to write out a script on patient request.
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This isn't even mentioning how incredibly difficult it is to be transitioning in the regions outside North America, Western Europe and Oceania. We don't need this kind of talk anywhere.
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Agreed, I wish they'd stop with this whole discourse. Just let me fucking take estrogen. I've been waiting months and talking to a therapist, if I don't get it by march I'd doing DIY. I encourage others to join me, no more shit, no more games. Just Do It.
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This case-note retrospective has a higher rate of detransitioning than you have claimed here, though the sample size was smaller than would be ideal. The ‘under 1%’ claim is chucked around a bit in media but I have yet to see a solid source for that claim.
I would be interested in reading other studies on this.
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The <1% detransition is from people that find out they were wrong about being trans/their gender. This excludes reasons like assholes pressuring them into detransitioning, assholes not supporting them or asshole governments stopping their treatment for example. Does this study account for that?
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