Quote Originally Posted by Arwen2 View Post
Biology is not binary and science continues to prove that it is a spectrum. And as more and more people get the care they need, the spectrum will continue to widen until people can no longer deny that intersex people or even animals that can change sex are not rare but actually more common than it’s given credit for. Denying this reality is the most harmful to humanity [...]
nature absolutely has massive variety in phenotypes and how procreation is arranged, and disorders in individual development shuffle the deck too-- if one wants to account every possible and even theoretical variation. but not all transitioning is about procreation, because not every transitioning person cares about procreation.

it's not bullying to point out that studies have shown that when untampered and "healthy" hormone balance in body is altered it can -and will- have effects when specific tresholds are passed. like biologically female body dying before it's time when it's testosterone levels are altered to be way higher than they would be without that manual alteration.
i think it's called informed consent the there is keyword hiding in plain sigh: informed.

why is it called healthcare? because it alleviates their psychological distress about their gender, and that healing effect of mind is real, too, and for people who take that road it's worth it and that's what matters. two things can be true at once.

disclaimer: i'm someone with condition which is sometimes, recently, counted among the intersexed condition, and lifelong medical patient (different diagnosis to my pseudo-intersexed thing); of different kind to someone having hrt, but i go to hospital to meet my doctor for the controls and take my infusions all the same. my med shortens my life expextency AND it's 100% worth it for the other effects, like my body not rotting away and even more disabled even faster

i'm sorry if i sounded truescum af. i see less and less reason to be fearful of bad words every day.