Is it normal that i support trans people but have issues with transitioning?

I have no issue with trans people existing and living their life the way they choose to. However, I've seen the footage of transitioning surgeries. I've met people who have detransitioned and have been left permanently changed and damaged by what they had done to themselves. I've seen their regret. Ive seen so many struggle with other underlying mental health issues. I had a friend who wanted to start male to female, and when her therapist said it would be best to wait, she threatened to stab her. I feel like there are a lot of lost people out there who use transitioning as self harm, and I'm very concerned with how easy it seems for these vulnerable, often damaged people to make decisions that involve cutting off parts of their anatomy to form new anatomy. Inverted penises and flesh taken from arms and legs to form new penises. I see stories like Jazz who does not have enough material because she is stuck with an infantile penis from transitioning so young, and she may never orgasm. Its concerning to me.

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  • ArrestThisMan

    I think it's real but way overdiagnosed. For example many MtFs are just horny dudes who think that being a woman is to be a slutty bimbo like in all the porn/anime they watch; and many FtMs experienced some form of abuse which made them feel that having a female body makes them a walking target.
    They need help reaching mental stability first and then see if they still feel a need to mutilate their bodies for society's approval.

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  • LloydAsher

    I recognize the plight of those few who were born in the wrong bodies but is the body wrong or is the mind wrong? That's the big question here. Suppose I have a unique perspective on this since I'm chromosomally intersex. I feel male yet some of my body parts reject the notion (specifically my breasts but a few bench presses now and again got that solved) I am born as XXY but that Y still makes me a man no matter how many Xs are inside it.

    The mind is such a fickle thing, humans are very, very complex creatures when it comes to inteligence. Gender dysphoria dosesnt effect animals since their brains do not have the required capacity for it. It's a uniquely human problem. I am on the side of it being a brain problem rather than the bodies problem. The brain makes mistakes both chemically and through fault of genetics. For that very reason jumping for a quick fix solution such as transitioning rather than trying to sort out all other possible places for distress cannot be understated.

    I belive if someone truely believes they are trans they should have the ability to transition but they need to know that it isnt a path that can easily be reverted if you go down in. Thus it needs to be handled over the course of years because belive it or not children, teens and young adults are very susceptible to coercion. The path through transition cannot be forced upon that person by another. It has to be 100% their decision both mentally and truely what the person wants to do over a long period of time. Not because of what they think will help them in what would have been normaly a short to mid term solution.

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  • FromTheSouthWeirdMan

    I think alot of the time theres people with issues like depression and one day they get the idea that transitioning will fix it all. Then they transition (permanently with hormones) and they realize it did not fix their problems. Then they get worse. The suicide rate for trans people is like 40%.

    Some people its great and I'm sure it helps them. But the problem I have with those people is they push it on confused young people and tell them theyre so brave and cheer them on. Then the confused young person finally feels they have meaning because of all the support. Then they do something they regret. And trans people will tell you this never happens. But it does. It happens alot too!

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    • LloydAsher

      The problem is that those who do have this problem are shunned by the very people who told them to go down this path. That is a terrible level of betrayal.

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  • RoseIsabella

    Not my circus, not my monkey. Although I do want to say that I couldn't remain friends with someone who would threaten to stab his therapist.

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  • leggs91200

    This again?

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