i’m pretty sure i’ve made a few posts exactly like this but my god it bares repeating because this drives me mad. i’ve explained to a few trans people/TRAs on here that i cured my own dysphoria with therapy and wholeheartedly believed most people’s gender dysphoria without any radical medical intervention. each time I’ve gotten a response on the lines of: “well therapy wouldn’t be a viable option for most people’s gender dysphoria because it’d be too uncomfortable and gender affirming care is the best treatment” which is sort of baffling to me.
like yeah, that’s literally most of what doing the work in therapy is. it’s doing deep introspection on your behaviors and training your brain to work differently than the way it’s naturally wired. it’s not easy, and can often be uncomfortable which is why you have a professional helping to guide you. the fact that these things are inherently difficult and uncomfortable is exactly the reason why a lot of people who are clearly unstable opt out of therapy entirely and say some sort of similar cope line like: “therapy just doesn’t work for me." because it’s easier to become complacent and continue living with a brain that’s making you miserable than to do the difficult work.
and the thing is, most people wouldn’t even KNOW whether or not their gender dysphoria could have been successfully treated with therapy because therapists are terrified of questioning any patient that states they think they’re trans out of fear of getting their license revoked and labeled a “conversion therapist.”
because doctors and the trans community have spoonfed it to everyone that cross-sex hormones and surgeries are the only valid treatment or else you’ll inevitably off yourself. parents are terrified of asking questions and exploring other options when their kid says they think they’re trans because the: “wouldn’t you rather have a trans kid than a dead kid?” is everywhere. you’re putting vulnerable people in a position where they’re forced to believe the only solution to their issues is extremely sketchy invasive treatments with horrifying side-effects they may not even be aware of because none of the “professionals” tell them. it’s disgusting, it’s not legitimate medical care and nobody can convince me otherwise.
Yeah. It's not even a bad kind of discomfort most of the time; they dig around in your head but they're doing it to get the trauma out. It's like removing a splinter from your finger.
Instead we have all these carpenters (women and girls) getting splinters in their fingers (feeling unqualified to be women) because their workplaces (men) refuse to meet OSHA standards (treat them like human beings) and instead of anyone trying to fix that they're getting told that they should just amputate their fingers. And they're being told that that's MORE COMFORTABLE(!!!!!), because their workplaces (men) have a vested interest in making it very uncomfortable for them to unionise.
