Discussion Expect to see an increase of trans users on here.

[Droso]

The HHS put out a 400 page article claiming that conversion therapy is the best course of action for trans adolescents while maintaining all of the research supporting any types of transition to be biased and lacking in methodology.

They make a ton of baseless claims, ones that have already been debunked by the evidence they treat as "not scientific enough", such as conversion therapy showing no harm in studies. There are no authors tied to this article, but someone on bluesky did some digging by putting the report's appendix in NotePad which showed the creator as Alex Bryne. This man is an MIT philosophy professor. The article also does not include who conducted their peer reviews on the basis of "helping maintain the integrity of [the peer review's] process," claiming that they will be released after the peer review process is complete. Additionally, the report defines trans youth as anyone 26 and under.

Essentially: it is an unscientific article designed to fear-monger and create anti-trans rhetoric. And consequently, push trans people toward suicide.

I am sorry to any trans people reading this. Remember that your choice to transition is yours. And so is dying. There are people in here and in other spaces that are willing to provide information on DIY HRT, just like how we do with ctb methods. So please don't be discouraged. Many health organizations are already calling bullshit on the report.

 

[Johnrio]

Yeah, the current administration is 75% if why I'm back after 5 years. The impact is very real even if a lot of his executive orders are being fought. It's v hard to be trans rn. I'm just so tired.

 

[LostLily]

I feel sorry for them because being trans is hard enough.

 

[rowcrumble22]

this obsession with scapegoating and antagonizing a group of people that has nothing to do with any societal harm is just another pastime for these people. be trans be whatever tf you want as long as you dont cause malicious devastation. we are a modern society and we dont have to keep hating on this type of thing when multiple worthy problems(such as cancer) could have already been cured but hey guys those gays! those immigrants! those are real issues!

 

[loser4ever4life]

I feel sorry for them because being trans is hard enough.

This a million times, even before this culture war picked up the fervor it has now, it was hard for trans folk. I'm not a member of the community so I won't try and explain their experiences for them, but I can't imagine the internal struggle on top of the fear of coming out,. Dealing with all those thoughts and now this systemic violence and normalized transphobia . I hate that the world is headed in this direction, all my trans homies deserve all the love they can get.

To all the trans folk on here, please, hang in there. I know it's going to be hard, but the world is made better by you being here.

 

[GargoyleFiend]

This a million times, even before this culture war picked up the fervor it has now, it was hard for trans folk. I'm not a member of the community so I won't try and explain their experiences for them, but I can't imagine the internal struggle on top of the fear of coming out,. Dealing with all those thoughts and now this systemic violence and normalized transphobia . I hate that the world is headed in this direction, all my trans homies deserve all the love they can get.

To all the trans folk on here, please, hang in there. I know it's going to be hard, but the world is made better by you being here.

I'll give a little insight for people who want to know more (and because I want to complain). Personally, I've known I was trans since I was younger than 8 years old, and I always knew I was different. I didn't fit in with either gender, and when the teachers told me to go to a side, I stood there in the middle awkwardly because being on one side was uncomfortable to me, and the other side made other people uncomfortable. I tried getting help, but my parents are assholes so I had to go through puberty of the wrong gender and now I look disgusting, and I hate my body. That feeling is omnipresent and doesn't go away, ever. Transitioning was the only reason I haven't CTB, but I certainly tried before transition and I will at some point in the future. Even now, I still over-analyze my appearance, and there's many days where I put on a nice outfit and feel disgusted with the way I look so I don't even go anywhere. Now imagine that on top of this internal turmoil you have going on, society, the news media, and scientists now are telling you that you're a pervert pedophile while slowly but surely chipping away at what few legal protections you had. At least for me, it's kind of a world breaking position to be in, and I see it as holding me back in my life. There's so many things I can't do because it's not safe. Can't go swimming, can't date normally, can't even go to Walmart without getting every part of your body and appearance over analyzed. It's rough out here.

Yeah, the current administration is 75% if why I'm back after 5 years. The impact is very real even if a lot of his executive orders are being fought. It's v hard to be trans rn. I'm just so tired.

I feel that. I miss the time when no one knew what being trans was. It's gotten so bad over the last 5 years, and it's definitely a large part of the reason I'm around here too. Now everyone is so hateful and constantly on the lookout for trans people. I've never been harassed as much as I have in the last couple of years because all the politicians are making the average person think it's ok. I mean an elected official has literally called people by a slur multiple times.

 

[Droso]

To all the trans folk on here, please, hang in there. I know it's going to be hard, but the world is made better by you being here.

I wrote this post to spread awareness about how it intends to fear monger. But I'm trans myself. And it's getting to me.

Because they defined trans youth as anyone under 26, and because the courts will be looking at this report to make rulings on healthcare, there is a very good possibility that many of us will lose access to our care. And I can't wait that long. Sure I can buy T through the black market, I've done it before, but you can't DIY surgeries. I need top surgery. I need bottom surgery. I can't wait that long. I can't. I just want to die already.

 

[loser4ever4life]

I wrote this post to spread awareness about how it intends to fear monger. But I'm trans myself. And it's getting to me.

Because they defined trans youth as anyone under 26, and because the courts will be looking at this report to make rulings on healthcare, there is a very good possibility that many of us will lose access to our care. And I can't wait that long. Sure I can buy T through the black market, I've done it before, but you can't DIY surgeries. I need top surgery. I need bottom surgery. I can't wait that long. I can't. I just want to die already.

I'm so sorry you're going through that right now, I'm sorry I don't have the right words for you. Just know I wish you nothing but strength and the best. It does sound like hell what you're going through

 

[Ijustcantanymore]

It fucking breaks my heart because the reality is that no one is coming to save the trans people. There are just not enough of us that care about them as a group of human people. I fear how much more they will be oppressed and how much more the rest of us will be threatened for supporting them in the future.

I truly wish there was something we could do to protect them other than literally standing between them and conservatives. But our enemies hold all the card, and control all the levels of power.

Worse comes to worse I will happily shelter trans people in my apartment to keep them safe.

Personally I'm ready for the v word solution. But not enough people yet feel threatened enough. It just sucks because by the time v becomes our only option. The losses will be catastrophic. I'm scared for my trans/queer peers.

 

[Daymondog]

As a non-american trans person, this heavily saddens and terrifies me at the same time. I thought things were hard over here but holy shit. I'm afraid this might seep into my country too. They've already banned HRT for youth and surgery for 21- here recently, luckily i'm 18+, but i'm afraid it might end up escalating. (◞‸◟；)

 

[Dejected 55]

People tend to like to band together to go after the perceived weak or the minority. Doesn't even have to be for a good reason either. Just some way to band together with others and kick someone else so they can make themselves feel big. It is a story as old as time. The transgender community is just the latest to get caught up in this kind of hate, and they won't be the last, unfortunately.

As much of a minority as the trans community is, I've known quite more than I think should be the average. All quite by accident too. When I used to be on Facebook I had at least four or five friends who were trans, at varying stages of their transitions and all kinds mtf, ftm, and non-binary. In real life I met a couple of different people who were not trans when I met them but came out at some point so I was in a small group of the first people who knew. One of them I got to talk quite a bit about how things were going along the way. That's probably the one I knew the most/best of all that I've known. She was getting increasingly scared at the direction her state and the country was turning. On the one hand coming to terms herself with her transition and having a fog lifted in her brain feeling like she was finally able to become her true self... on the other hand realizing that newfound confidence was going to come at a cost of having to be careful and on guard for so many angry people irrationally hating her for what she was becoming.

It's just so stupid. People jump far easier to hate than to love. I just don't understand it. I don't love or even like everyone in the world, but I don't have the time or desire to hate or discriminate. My trans friend I would tell her honestly that I did not fully understand her experience or what it was like to be her as I always felt like a man as I was born. I might not fit the manly definitions society would have me meet, but I don't feel like I'm living in the wrong physical form. BUT, I told her it was not at all necessary for me to understand her decision/feeling for me to accept and believe and treat her like an actual human being. Admittedly it took me a minute to get her pronouns straight at first since I knew her pre-transition which meant I had to fight the initial natural instinct to use her old name and old pronouns... but it wasn't so difficult that I didn't get the hang of it quickly.

I definitely feel for anyone who is having to deal with their own transitions on top of all the crazy/hate that is going to be coming at them for the forseeable future.