Quote Originally Posted by RaionKansen View Post
Yes, it requires constant supervision. Women's bodies aren't designed to process that much testosterone. They're 3-4x more likely to suffer from heart attack or strokes compared to cis women due to the changes in their cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood thickness. There's also risks of your insulin levels becoming too low. Your blood has to be monitored constantly. You're also more likely to put on a lot of weight which exacerbates both of these risks.

You have to spend the rest of your life taking the medication and having your blood monitored. There isn't an endpoint, and over time the body will struggle more and more to manage it. You'd just be left with a deeper voice, body hair, and most likely pattern baldness if you stopped medication. If the ovaries are removed AND medication is stopped, you add on a whole new set of imminent health risks.

Maybe health care is a lot better in other countries, but there's a lot of care facilities in America that obfuscate these risks and it leads to people getting hurt. Or, in the worst case scenario, someone just buys the medication online and seeks minimal professional guidance
It is important to point out that nothing has been said about the positive impact that transgender care and rights has on mental health. To live truly and accepted makes all the difference in the world. And the ideas of love, truth, and compassion are not these fairy tales ideas that exist only for the dreamers, these are ideas that can change the world. People can spiel outlier information that caters to their single minded thought, but the truth is not binary. And the longer we allow people to think in the binary, the more the world is filled with hate and under developed minds. The world is a beautiful collection of humans, and everyone is valid. Trying to convince the world otherwise, that there is only one man and one woman and anything outside of that is invalid, is exactly the type of thoughts that dehumanize humans and that’s horrific.