Something that may be incomprehensible to those believing me a transphobe, is that I'm not actually anti-trans. Or more specifically, I'm not against the idea of someone wanting to switch genders.
The problem is the current lack of technology to make a perfect switch. One can go through all kinds of treatments and surgeries to imitate the opposite sex, but at the end of the day the DNA is the same. The processes inside the body didn't change to what is natural for the opposite sex, they were simply altered, and most of the time with imperfect results.
The worst part is that if someone who transitioned ends up changing their mind after the fact and wants to go back to who they were before, the consequences of transitioning are almost irreversible.
One of the worst of the possible consequences is being unable to have a biological child of your own. I understand not everyone wants kids, but those who do and end up unable to have them are absolutely devastated.
So my problem with the current push to make it easy for everyone, including children, to transition is the fact that the process is simply not there yet.
The rhetoric online and in media is one of acceptance, pushing people only thinking casually about transitioning into actually going through with it.
Practically never are the negative consequences brought up by those pushing for people to transition. Everything's perfect on the other side of the rainbow.
It wouldn't be an issue if one could perfectly swap bodies like in a game's character creator, but we live in reality, where such is not possible. Yet.
So, I bully people who are considering transitioning using facts and logic, in the hopes that they're dissuaded from casually doing something that may ruin their lives forever.
And for those who already transitioned... You've made your bed, I sincerely hope you like lying in it.
"Because antidepressants won't completely cure everyone's depression symptoms, because literal magic that makes your brain totally neurotypical hasn't been invented yet, and in some relatively rare cases it can actually make symptoms worse, I like to go around harassing people considering starting medicine. It's for their own good though, promise"
I'm on hormone replacement therapy. I got it through a notoriously permissive provider, one that, to quote some politicians "gives it out like candy". I met with a nurse practitioner, not an endocrinologist, since people love to throw nurses under the bus. It still started with a consultation that went over what is and isn't possible, the variance in results, the fact it isn't the miracle cure I might wish it was and the importance of setting realistic expectations, the possibility of side effects, and what changes are or aren't reversible and to what extents. I then made an informed decision on what I preferred because humans do, in fact, have the right to make their own decisions about their bodies.
It really is not that hard to understand this, but you don't want to engage with the facts of what trans healthcare looks like in good faith, you just state the facts are some shit you made up because it was rhetorically convenient for you, or you believe some other people who did that because you are fundamentally incurious and judge things merely by how well they comport with your own uninformed opinion.
You make arbitrary impossible standards and point to the fact the process has downsides and risks and go "See, it shouldn't happen at all" instead of you know making like a real human in any real context at all whatsoever, and comparing the options that actually do exist. This is like if someone was debating moving to another country and you said "Well it's not Heaven so you shouldn't go. Also fuck you (I am hurting you in the hopes you stop considering moving because that helps you)". And it really doesn't matter if this is a calculated way to hide your power level as you make your transphobic arguments because you hate us for no real reason, or if you really believe this worldview because you decided to trust a chain of lies that ultimately goes back to people who hate us for no real reason, because if you had a shred, a single
shred of the ability and inclination to be better than this, you wouldn't read manga about trans characters and go into the comments to argue with trans people that the characters who explicitly say they wish their bodies were differently sexed and they could live as another gender aren't trans. You probably think I'm like angry saying this, but I'm not. You truly are pathetic and laughable and an utterly transparent dumbass and I can't bring myself to really care about you when there are people who will actually say I should be shot with their whole chest, y'know?
But like you people just
keep talking and eventually you just wanna write up the "You aren't nearly as smart as you think you are" thing, y'know? Anyways I'm going to go talk to my two girlfriends now. (And no, they
don't smoke weed.) (Is anyone here even going to get that joke?)
In actually worthwhile things, you get that kind of reception like in the post-credits, kurisu, because you are a cool person who puts in a lot of effort to make LGBT stuff visible in this place that's sorta otherwise a cesspool about this shit. People trust you 'cuz you deserve to be trusted! Pschooooo.
