I appreciate the effort shown

Oh my gosh. The idea that these are discrete, distinct categories- what a super un-realistic take on how ppl come to detransition.https://twitter.com/pikachurch/status/1328088537304948736 …

I stopped taking T bc I couldn’t afford the hit to my finances from being read as a bearded lady. I lived for another 1.5 years convinced I was the unluckiest man to have ever lived. Then I got a job at a trans clinic + THEN came to “oh this idea keeps taking me to bad places.”

Ppl who detransition bc of money/health concerns overlap with ppl who detransition bc they decide their gender beliefs aren’t positive for them. There is not the neat little confused cis/ true trans binary people want SO BAD.

I wasn’t a confused cis. I was a hyper-well informed all the way often suicidal over my man in a womanly body predicament. I finally got so well informed that I was like “I deserve a longer, more comfortable, less ensconced in a weird bubble life.”

But see it does matter that I value a long, healthy, physically comfortable and I can hang out with almost anybody kind of life. It turned out I wanted this kind of life more than the not-really-much-like-the-lives of the men I saw myself in that surgeons and T could give me.