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Not sure if you missed the bottom half of that comment. I think they meant that they wished they started to transition earlier because being forced to go without gender affirming care caused their gender/body dysmorphia to worsen.
Honestly can relate. Kinda questioned this at 15 but brushed it off. If I hadn't been filled with dumbass transphobic/transmedicalist propaganda, if I had the information I have today. Maybe I wouldn't be sitting here in my mid 20s only starting to put the work in.
Male hormones have caused my hair to thin.
My voice to deepen.
My body to grow hair where I don't want it.
Furthermore, HRT will no longer be able to effect the skeletal shape of my hips the way it would've had I been able to do it earlier.
But it's not just all of that. My teenage years where going to be awkward any who, but I lost my early-mid 20s. That was time spent I should've been my true gender. Instead I spent it wondering what was wrong with me, eating like shit, and fucking up my teeth.
It wasn't until I finally realized who I was that I felt it was worth working on myself. That's whats why gender-reaffirming care is so important. That's why treating gender dysphoria as important as any other sort of mental condition is so important.
You don't need to take HRT to offset this. Puberty blockers can stave off the effects until adulthood. I think if we can give kids prescriptions to fucking meth to help with differences in their brains, we can give kids puberty blockers for that too.
Any medication when mishandled can be dangerous, just because it fucks with your idea of gender doesn't make it any worse.
Ok, there was slight misunderstanding. My understanding was this person used testosterone before 16 year old. I assumed this because I knew dudes who took it to increase muscle mass in the middle school. I understood, there was transition therapy later.
I don't think we should do either of these things. My instinct always told me that body is a complex machinery and it comes with two unwritten instructions: Do not screw with it, and maintain properly
Who the fuck died and made you the god damn arbiter of what constitutes screwing with your body, and what constitutes proper maintenance?
I think I trust the advice of actual doctors over some fucking elected yokel who's acting against the advice of the professional mental health community.
Why dont you try living with gender dysphoria for two and a half decades, then get back to me, hmm?
I got my first severe body modification when I was 11, a defibrillator. without it I would be dead now. you're right, for the average person they shouldn't mess with their body. but not everyones body is perfect. lots of people wear glasses, or take all sorts of medications.
noone complains about me taking heart disease meds with crazy, I mean INSANE side effects when I was 11. because it's just the right thing to do. yes there's risks to those meds, but more often than not they're beneficial. but hormones? nonono, that's way too dangerous! you might be one of the 0.00000001%* of people who regret it! hell, the other meds I take have SUDDEN DEATH as a common side effect. COMMON. noone whines about that.
*"slightly" exaggerated, but the number is very low.
Well, you got it tough :(
Of course - if there's health issue, taking medicine is perfectly justified. I would never negate that - it would be hypocritical, as I regularly take drugs for my own health issues
Are you familiar with HRT menopausal disorder treatment in the 90s? I remember, it despite being like 10y old at the time - mostly because ads were running in TV day and night, and I don't even live in US - this was popular world-wide. That was until in the early 2000s when very large scale testing suggested it's linked to breast cancer.
Despite menopausal disorder treatment being approved in the 1960s, it took almost 40 years to discover the negative impact. General conclusion was that in the end it didn't offer benefits that would justify the risks.
I'm not concerned about known risks of drugs I take - I'm generally concerned about risks I don't know. In some cases, it can take decades to properly evaluate all pros and cons.
I'm not writing this to scare you - your life is your choice. It just the mindset of drastically modifying your body at the very, very young age, in ways that may or may not result in a long term adverse effect is genuinely concerning. This is why I would never approve either sex change surgery, nor hormonal therapy for person below 18 years old.
Do you know what the negative impact of not giving trans kids gender-affirming care is?
Suicide.
https://www.hcplive.com/view/suicide-risk-reduces-73-transgender-nonbinary-youths-gender-affirming-care
So I assume you will never get a stent or a pacemaker or a joint replacement or a pin in a broken bone or even a blood transfusion.
Come to think of it, even glasses is screwing with your body's normal standard of vision.
Do you wear clothes? Why are you screwing with your body's temperature regulation abilities?