Late onset gender dysphoria

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

How 'peer contagion' plays into the rise of teens transitioning

What this article doesn’t mention is that this book is available on Amazon, but she’s not allowed to advertise it there.

 

[Mythicalbio]

One detransitioner, Desmond, said her use of testosterone brought on severe uterine pain and necessitated a hysterectomy. “No one really helped me at that point,” she said. “They were so easy to the pushing of hormones, of putting the thought of surgery in my head, of ‘Yes, this will make you happier, this will make your life easier, this will get rid of your depression, this will help you become your true self’ rather than treating it as a way of escaping myself before really coming to terms and finding my true self again.”

Good article on this issue. I’ve thought about why some people I’ve seen transition do it, and one of the reasons some give is because gender can be oppressive. I think some girls who would have been tomboys or such so it for that, like the article mentions. One thing I hate about transitioning (I don’t hate trans people) is the use of drugs and how not enough warning about hormone changes is given. I quoted that part because this is an example. Changing hormone balance, surgeries, getting breast implants, etc, will definitely change your quality of life, and probably in many people for the worse. In all cases in life I think someone should only take medicine/get surgeries if absolutely necessary, even if they have to suffer some pain (if you can stick it out, don’t do opiates or any pain relievers, etc). But with this, some people seem to just rush into it without considering the hell that can result from this kind of drug use.

 

[0Scarlett_nidiyilii]

Also, a lot of well-meaning people think that every case of transgender is present from an early age. In other words, “transsexual” as it was understood back when the medical literature started mentioning this phenomenon in the late 1800s

They also think that gender clinics are there to help kids in crisis.
Sorry, no. They’re there to push them into transition.

 

[Jen95]

I also think gender roles are more rigid now, than when I was growing up, due to ? (Advertising, social media, parental laxity, trashy values of popular culture).
For instance, when I was a kid, if a girl was a tomboy, no big deal, she didn’t like to wear dresses, etc. No biggie. Now I think that girls are worried about being “fat” by age 6 or so, and are probably worried about looking attractive or “sexy” soon after. If they’re not interested in looking “sexy” when they are eight years old, maybe they think they have gender dysphoria?
The gender roles are more stereotypical, more rigid, causing kids to think they are “gender dysphoric” when in fact they may just have a natural revulsion to horrible gender stereotyping, especially at a young age.