Quote Originally Posted by RaionKansen View Post
Well, the unfortunate reality is that any discussion about the negative impact has been heavily censored on the internet until the last few years. Also, life is really long. Transitioning makes you a life-long patient. What feels great in the moment, might not feel the same 30, 40, 50 years down the line when you're still reliant on constant medication and monitoring to perpetuate the choices you've made…
The discussions of negative impacts are absolutely not censored, hence the posts about it in this very thread. That argument is equivalent to people saying they aren’t allowed to “say anything anymore” as they are literally saying things. The actual truth about biology is that it is definitely not binary, science is proving that more and more every day. As humans evolve, so should the ideas of existence evolve. Transgender people are very aware of long term commitments, it is their entire lives we are talking about here. If only people could understand that being surrounded by nay sayers and people constantly telling them that their care means “shortening their life span” creates an environment of pain and depression vs being surrounded by people who love and support them and help by spreading inclusion… oh what a world we could live in but choose not to. Real love and compassion isn’t discouraging care, real love and compassion is sponsoring and supporting a system that makes lifelong care manageable to have a chance at a beautiful life. What is truly infuriating is the idea that transgender people can only know themselves in adulthood, when almost all transgender people have known since they became self aware as children. If raised in an environment of love and acceptance, what brainwashing is even being referred to here? The only brainwashing I see are people trying to convince the world that we only exist in the black and white, and those are the type of ideas that dehumanize people.