nicole

Chelsea Perkins, like many survivors, was failed by the criminal justice system, and is now being punished for taking measures to correct that failure. Updated (2/20/2026) address for letters of support (money must be sent through the federal system):

Chelsea Perkins, 77919-509 FCI Hazelton Federal Correctional Institution Satellite Camp Secure Female Facility P.O. Box 3000 Bruceton Mills, WV 26525

It's not solely this statistic, loads of this sentiment are used. It's so emotionally manipulative to be thrown around. Especially in a community that heavily consists of young, vulnerable people. It sells you this lie that if you don't transition, you will live miserably and your fate is harming yourself. Do people hear themselves when they say this?

Suicide statistics are thrown around more than the risks for medical transitioning; I didn't even know there were risks. Meanwhile, several studies have come out to show that there isn't any correlation between gender affirming care and better mental health (¹). My gender dysphoria stemmed from trauma I won't disclose on here. It's still something that comes up every eight months or so.

Thank god I didn't medically transition due to my parents being transphobic lmao. I hate to think about the permanent damage I would've done to myself otherwise - but radfems are the ones doing damage to trans youth, of course!

¹ : Review of suicides and gender dysphoria at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust: independent report - GOV.UK https://share.google/5wZPvGkUClOh4BQ3C

I would tell someone the opposite to stop them from suffering.

Being honest about what testosterone can and cannot do for you, and it's side effects, saves trans lives.

There is, in fact, a good chance that it WILL harm you.

For example:

94% of trans men on testosterone in this study were found to have developed pelvic floor dysfunction

Cross sex HRT in both sexes is linked to benign tumour development

The famous study saying that mental health improves after medical transition had to be edited by the original authors because it wasn't true

Testosterone does significantly more damage to the vagina than menopause does

Bone density decreases in adolescents of both sexes on cross sex HRT

1 in 10 trans men on testosterone will develop erythrocytosis (thick slow flowing blood) which causes blood clots

And these are just the things that we DO know about so far, that first stat was only discovered this year.