Alice's Wizardly Void-Space

I get hormonal teens developing inappropriate feelings for adults is fairly par for the course which is why at the time I didn't really think too much of it but as an adult now I would probably start crying and flee the building.

Also additions from @peelerofpotatoes and @tvtimaeus that are good

I would still take estrogen on a desert island. If that doesn't describe you, then good for you!! But dismantling gender norms would still not alleviate bodily dysphoria for all.

I'm sorry but this is another "status quo take that acts like it's the underdog". I mean yeah I guess we can't be CERTAIN certain of this, because we don't have a society-free control group of humans. But I've personally spent a decent amount of time in isolated wilderness and I've still had bodily dysphoria then. I've still had bodily dysphoria after years of trying to deconstruct the concept of what bodies go with what people.

My weird anecdote here is that I was raised in a prudish environment and learned about normal genital anatomy kinda late (around like 8ish yo). I don't remember much that far back, but I have some memory of bottom dysphoria before I never knew that opposite sexed genitals existed. I knew something felt wrong about me having a penis before I knew what a vagina was, when I was a young kid.

Like yeah I guess you can't be 100% sure what a genderless society would do for bodily dysphoria. But as it stands it just reads as annoying and dismissive to claim this about anyone who does experience bodily dysphoria. And it's even more annoying to see this take pop up EVERY time someone mentions bodily dysphoria. It is genuinely kind of what I'm complaining about initially, or rather a prelude to the mentality I'm complaining about initially. This "controversial take" is the initial statement you have to accept before saying something like "we just need to deconstruct gender instead of letting people transition" when the reality of that statement is that the premise itself is flawed. And that flawed premise is what you're saying.

So I honestly could not disagree more.

So today I tripped. Fell flat on my face, it was awful but ultimately harmless. My service dog, however, is trained to go get an adult if I have a seizure, and he assumed this was a seizure (were training him to do more to care for me, but we didn’t learn I had epilepsy until a year after we got him)

I went after him after I had dusten off my jeans and my ego, and I found him trying to get the attention of a very annoyed woman. She was swatting him away and telling him to go away. So I feel like I need to make this heads up

If a service dog without a person approaches you, it means the person is down and in need of help

"um people have definitely mentioned that out loud before lol you are young and therefore stupid and entitled and though i'm not saying it i'm also implying that you (trans woman) are being overly sensitive and nitpicking and nobody cares lmao"