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When it comes to healthcare, trans men are among the most likely to avoid care because of mistreatment and were among the highest to have negative experiences with healthcare providers.

When it comes to hormone and transition related surgery denials, trans men are among the highest.

Presented without comment. (And acknowledging this is not separated by gender and those other than trans men are included in this bit)

Transmascs and nonbinary people are the ones who come in latest, with the most severe health conditions.

Transmascs and nonbinary people are the ones who neglect their healthcare because they have faced so much heinous transphobic medical abuse.

All trans folks suffer in healthcare, but it's transmascs and nonbinary people I have seen in particular, over and over again, dealing with serious and life-altering/life-threatening complications specifically because they have been abused so consistently and awfully by the medical system, in a way targeted DIRECTLY at their transmasculinity or transneutrality, that they have let otherwise treatable conditions progress to a point where they are actually dangerous.*

We need to talk about that. Transmascs and nonbinary folks need to be able to talk about that, without being shouted down by people who are not transmasc and nonbinary, who consistently downplay and dismiss their very real and dangerous suffering.

If you cannot accept that a different minority group may, in fact, suffer comparably - or even more than you - in specific ways, you are, in fact, the problem. This is your wake-up call - it's time to do some soul searching. It is NOT GOOD PRAXIS to argue endlessly with transmascs and nonbinary people about what language they are 'allowed' to use. Start campaigning to support your trans brothers and siblings, rather than trying to shut them down when they discuss the very real oppression they face.

I get paranoid and have unusual perceptual experiences, but not hallucinations. I withdraw from time to time but I'm still sociable. I get restless and sometimes make risky decisions but I always rein myself in. I might sleep for 13 hours and hardly manage the bare minimum for months but I'm still kind of okay. I talk to myself almost all day to keep myself company but only in whispers when no one is listening. I get weird thoughts and think in strange loops and paradoxes for hours straight but I am always aware that it's all nonsense.

Therapists tell me how self-aware I am. Friends consider me the voice of reason. I'm playing a role that doesn't fit my internal reality. And I wish I could just do something crazy to show people I'm not normal.