religion-is-a-mental-illness:shrimpmandan:religion-is-a-mental-illness:21st century Thalidomide. Thi
religion-is-a-mental-illness:shrimpmandan:religion-is-a-mental-illness:21st century Thalidomide. This is very important, but I should add that only a minority of detransitioners did so because of being pushed to transition when they weren’t trans. A lot of detransitioners did so for safety, feeling like transition wasn’t worth it (because they believe they’ll never pass), or out of desperation to win back family and friends who may have left them during their transition. No.https://www.reddit.com/r/detrans/comments/srpp27/the_rdetrans_demographic_survey_screened_and/In fact, many will tell you that the reason they went so far was because of all the support and validation they got when they declared they were trans. The bigger problem occurred when they realized they made a mistake:https://thepostmillennial.com/detransitioners-slam-trans-and-mental-health-industry-for-urging-them-into-transitionInstead, it has led to so much madness, and trying to get out of its clutches is not just a medical reality, but a mental one. The feelings of belonging and acceptance that come with a trans identity are powerful, and each of the detransitioners spoke to that. Coming out as trans brought with it accolades, affirmations of bravery, beauty and strength.Sinead, speaking to her own transition and eventual detransition, said that she felt only love going into transition, and never experienced any transphobia. It was only after she began to question and move away from her belief that she was male that she began to experience hate. Much of this came from her own therapist who refused to believe that she was not trans, and attributed Sinead’s reversal to “internalized transphobia.”Indeed, acceptance issues is consistently one of the - if not the - lowest contributing factor.This is eerily similar to Islam, by the way, and the accusations levied against detrans people are also eerily similar.And not unique stories either. Here are four pages of people talking about transitioning and detransitioning. Here is Benjamin Boyce’s Detrans interview playlist with 30 interviews. And yes, medical issues were a problem, particularly when they were encouraged to transition without any warning of the side effects, such as testicular torsion and vaginal atrophy.https://thepostmillennial.com/detransitioners-slam-trans-and-mental-health-industry-for-urging-them-into-transitionMuch of what medical transition entails is not publicized. When speaking about the realities of medical transition, Robin, a man who has detransitioned from believing he is a woman, spoke about the horrors of castration and creating a neo-vagina that is essentially a permanent wound requiring dilation and specialized care. It comes with complications that Robin could barely voice, such as calcium deposits, and hair in places that makes comfort an impossibility. Phalloplasties, neo-vaginas, the removal of healthy reproductive systems, the removal of breasts, the implanting of silicone, are all serious medical procedures.And yet, these risks are not being made clear, much less exhausting other therapeutic alternatives, such as exploring the underlying causes of the gender dysphoria. GD is not especially common but it’s also not particularly rare, and it’s already known to occur for reasons relating to trauma, mental health and sexuality issues. The majority of GD is actually resolved either by time or by therapy for the underlying issue.None of which the gender industry bothers to address - the “affirmative care” model is as the second step above describes: if you think you’re trans, you are and it’s wrong to even question this.Michelle: “everyone online told me that if you think you might be trans, you are. If you are questioning your gender, you definitely aren’t cis.” #DetransAwarenessDay pic.twitter.com/H5RtV7047v— Genspect (@genspect) March 12, 2022Self-diagnosing being trans is no more reasonable than self-diagnosing kidney disease or dissociative identity disorder.Which is why it’s regularly described as an ideology. “If you think you have cancer, you do. and questioning it is Hate” doesn’t happen.As people who’ve abandoned Alcoholics Anonymous will tell you, AA was an escape from addressing their actual issues. When they left, they still had the trauma, depression, coping issues, abuse, etc that they started drinking to avoid in the first place. AA, like Gender Ideology, cares only about the symptoms, not the cause. For ideological (Queer Theory) reasons, which denies biological sex and stable gender categories, and regards everyone as a reprogrammable blank slate. i.e. is as pseudoscientific as phrenology.The people posting on #DetransAwarenessDay hashtag and on Detransition YouTube will actually tell you why they detransed.Listen to them. -- source link