"what if someone regrets transitioning" if you are 18 or over in free country usa you can walk into any tattoo parlor and ask for a tattoo that will be on your body forever and ever and ever and they will give it to you with the understanding that if you dont like the result or you regret it later that's your fucking problem and not theirs
This attitude is so telling of the complete lack of accountability in the trans community and what a total cult mentality it is.
Your own analogy is crap - in it you’re the innocent and perfectly detached tattoo artist that had nothing to do with the art or the placement or the size or color of the piece, just head down needle out do the work, get paid for the job done, and anyone who isn’t happy afterwards is a karen who obviously doesn’t understand the industry works.
The problem is that tattoo artists fuck people over all the time on work you fully consented to and paid for. Your consent doesn’t make them not liable for their own mistakes. They pressure you into designs you don’t really love because it fits their style better, they do wonky lines and impossible anatomy, they spell things wrong, they shade poorly or blend colors weirdly, they scratch or cut you with the needles, they overcharge and then still act like you’re scum if you don’t leave a huge tip. They expect you to love it even if they do a shit job. There’s any number of things a tattoo artist can do to not just give you a terrible experience but to make you regret and resent something you were once excited and hopeful about.
The worst part is hearing them bitch and moan about how awful a client was and then go on to describe completely a person behaving perfectly reasonably.
And that attitude is pretty familiar:
If you change your mind after I’ve sold you something that’s your own fault!
If you regret it after I’ve done something permanent to you that’s not my responsibility!
If you’ve been groomed to believe you’ll die young and miserable without transition and then you’re still unhappy afterwards then you can fuck right off!
Where’s even a hint of the love and compassion and understanding they claim we need to all have for anyone questioning or confused about gender? Where’s the empathy? Trans people claim to be the most marginalized abused helpless population on the planet, and they can’t bring themselves to give a shit about the kids they leave behind in the wake of their overmedicalized ideology.
If this is truly your attitude then just call yourself the trans industrial complex. You don’t care about kids being happy or healthy, you don’t have a leg to stand on to even try and claim you do. You’re part of a system that tells kids that the only solution to feeling strange or uncomfortable in their bodies is medication and surgery, and then immediately and cruelly abandons them when it isn’t successful. That mocks them when it goes wrong. That turns on them the instant they start to have doubts.
You are the shitty tattoo artist actually, because after they get the surgeries you told them they cant live without, if they don’t absolutely love it then you’re content to wash your hands of the matter. You made your contribution and it’s out of your hands. Not your problem, not your responsibility, they brought this on themselves, they should have thought about it more beforehand, they were obviously never really trans.
And also it’s EXTRA ironic all the people in the notes making comparisons to 18 year olds being actively recruited by the armed forces like… yeah guess who else isn’t getting adequately taken care of now by the people who pressured them to join up as a teenager and then utterly abandoned them after they were irreparably harmed in the process? That’s also bad. That’s also a similar example of children getting drawn into an extreme ideological group and being promised the world and coming out traumatized on the other side, then being demonized if they speak out about it. That’s a very good comparison actually but not for the reason you think! You accidentally made a great point
There's also the fact that you have to be 18 to get a tattoo or join the military in the US, but in some places it's legal and encouraged for teens to medically transition. I 100% agree with the above, but I just wanted to point that out. OP's analogy makes an interesting (and possibly unintentional point) that will absolutely get you called transphobic in many circles.
you can’t undo transitioning (unless it’s purely social, no meds or anything) but you CAN get tattoos removed
