Wonderfully put. I recently talked to a 70-year-old male detransitioner, and got an account of all the different illnesses he suffers from. It was devastating. It led me to go through the published research on the effect of estrogen and surgery on the male body. I wrote in down in post: https://mungeribabu.substack.com/p/estrogen-is-really-bad-for-men. The list is long and horrific. Estrogen causes cognitive decline, depression, and greatly increases the risk for several neuropathologies like Alzheimer's and schizophrenia. It greatly increases the risk for cardiovascular disease and several autoimmune diseases. It also increases the risks of prostrate and breast cancer. The outcome become even worse after surgeries. As a result, transgender women die from many different complications, often several decades before non-transgender individuals.
And this is all PUBLISHED research, published in respected journals in the last few years - the medical establishment, and especially the researchers in this area, cannot even pretend that the effects are "unknown." And yet this barbarism goes on.
There is absolutely no doubt that these young men and women are suffering - a huge deal. I cannot even begin to comprehend what mental trauma they might be going through in order to think that off-label and untested chemicals will work for them. They must feel that they are at a point of no return to try them. But catching these vulnerable people during these moments of vulnerability and selling them hormones and surgery as the panacea is beyond barbaric. It is vile and reprehensible and inhuman. Or maybe it is only human - because animals will never do something so abominable.
At the risk of committing heresy, I suspect that the detransition rate is low, but that doesn’t mean trans identifying youth are thriving. The medical industry was clever to target autistic youth to whom the identification, the paraphernalia, and treatments give a sense of purpose and belonging. r/ftm comprises troubled girls egging each other on through painful treatments that serve as rites of passage. They sacrifice their health, their relationships, and they reduce their romantic lives to being exploited by fetishists. Moreover, these ASD youth are easily programmed. Because they’re so rigid in their thinking, judge on narrow criteria, and lack the theory of mind to see other perspectives, I doubt they’ll ever escape. These are the young men with anime profiles who can repeat TRA talking points for days.
Thank you. Keep talking. Keep writing. The only way this will end is if others are as brave as you are.
Wonderfully put. I recently talked to a 70-year-old male detransitioner, and got an account of all the different illnesses he suffers from. It was devastating. It led me to go through the published research on the effect of estrogen and surgery on the male body. I wrote in down in post: https://mungeribabu.substack.com/p/estrogen-is-really-bad-for-men. The list is long and horrific. Estrogen causes cognitive decline, depression, and greatly increases the risk for several neuropathologies like Alzheimer's and schizophrenia. It greatly increases the risk for cardiovascular disease and several autoimmune diseases. It also increases the risks of prostrate and breast cancer. The outcome become even worse after surgeries. As a result, transgender women die from many different complications, often several decades before non-transgender individuals.
And this is all PUBLISHED research, published in respected journals in the last few years - the medical establishment, and especially the researchers in this area, cannot even pretend that the effects are "unknown." And yet this barbarism goes on.
There is absolutely no doubt that these young men and women are suffering - a huge deal. I cannot even begin to comprehend what mental trauma they might be going through in order to think that off-label and untested chemicals will work for them. They must feel that they are at a point of no return to try them. But catching these vulnerable people during these moments of vulnerability and selling them hormones and surgery as the panacea is beyond barbaric. It is vile and reprehensible and inhuman. Or maybe it is only human - because animals will never do something so abominable.
Thank you. Your powerful voice matters...A LOT.
At the risk of committing heresy, I suspect that the detransition rate is low, but that doesn’t mean trans identifying youth are thriving. The medical industry was clever to target autistic youth to whom the identification, the paraphernalia, and treatments give a sense of purpose and belonging. r/ftm comprises troubled girls egging each other on through painful treatments that serve as rites of passage. They sacrifice their health, their relationships, and they reduce their romantic lives to being exploited by fetishists. Moreover, these ASD youth are easily programmed. Because they’re so rigid in their thinking, judge on narrow criteria, and lack the theory of mind to see other perspectives, I doubt they’ll ever escape. These are the young men with anime profiles who can repeat TRA talking points for days.