• LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    Hormonal transition for those who want it is scientifically proven to be beneficial in improving in quality of life and decreasing suicidality.

    Queer people have always existed in many forms. Estrogen replacement therapy and testosterone replacement therapy have only existed for the last hundred years. But I would make no mistake that trans people are a real thing and for many of us who are binary the desire is not “i want to be perceived as genderqueer” rather it is “i want to be perceived as a man/woman”. Youre also definitely wrong that those things have been erased. Two spirit people and hijira still exist. And non-binary people do as well, who live entirely new lives made up of entirely new queer experiences.

    Which is great, and I’m happy people are able to live how they want to. I’m just a woman though. I’m just a binary transgender woman. In a perfect world I would never transition at all, I would have just been assigned female at birth. To that end I’ve been taking estrogen and t blockers for over 8 years. I had surgery so that I now have a vagina. I didn’t do those things because of ‘pharma capital complex’, I did them because this makes me happy. Because I am happy with myself and my body like this. I would not be happy if I did not have typical hormone levels for women, I would not be happy if I still had a penis. No one made my want those things, I have spent my entire life since I was a young child wishing for those things. And now that I have them I have the opportunity for a happy life. I would likely not have lived this long had I been born before the advent of medical transition. Whatever life I would’ve lived would have been absolutely miserable and likely ended by my own hand once I could no longer numb myself to my own skin.