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GenderRealistMom's avatar

I am as anti-affirmative care as you can be, I don't even believe there are magical unicorns for whom it is the right treatment but... I think we should try to be more careful in the way we think and talk about regret. Saying that they have "zero ability to repair themselves" does not fully align with detransitioners stories. Depending on how far they went down transition path, their bodies recover to some extent, many are not infertile and go on to have children. Some (I don't know if it is many or few) seem to repair themselves and find peace of mind. I have great respect for their strength and don't want to insult them with pity. They do, however, absolutely deserve reparations. I dream and pray that one day all transmedicine centers will close and in their place detrans centers will reopen that offer people evidence -based , scientific help in repairing their minds and bodies (fully funded by the pharma and doctors who caused this mess).

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Dee's avatar

The entire house of cards is built on the premise that an internal gender identity exists, is unchangeable, exists from birth, and can only be observed or measured by the individual who has the identity. If one accepts this premise, everything else follows - of course children should be encouraged to transition as early as possible, of course people should be allowed to legally change their sex, of course people shouldn’t be kept from changing areas or restrooms or sports teams, of course non-affirming therapy is cruel conversion therapy, of course non-affirming parents aren’t accepting you and should be cut off. Any suggestion that a transgender identity could have a cause, could involve an element of choice, or could change threatens everything built on it and therefore has to be attacked. The great bait and switch is to present these premises as facts that can’t be questioned, then every other argument becomes easy to win if you can distract people from questioning the premises. This is why they go after detransitioners so hard - it threatens everything to hear that a person genuinely believed they were transgender and then came to believe they were not

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