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Stella O'Malley believes that gender dysphoria is a coping mechanism for ordinary human ennui, like alcoholism or eating disorders (which in my mind is very dismissive of the particularities of both alcoholism and eating disorders). I find it so appalling.
The thing is being trans, and living a trans life isn't a life for the most part defined by distress or pain. This is what makes Stella O'Malley a conversion therapist and not a serious researcher of gender dysphoria and related support.
The thing is by talking about distress she gives an excuse to parents who reject their children's transgender identity, because they can blame it on growing pains and dismiss what their children have to say about themselves.
This is a way of making parents comfortable with conversion efforts.
I've got no problem saying out loud: Stella O'Malley promotes conversion efforts. That's what she's doing. As does Sasha Ayad.
If Stella O'Malley or someone else has persuaded you that denying yourself your own mind about your gender is good, has persuaded you it's a defect in your mind, I'm here to say your mind is just fine, and it's the quacks who are wrong.
Your body is just fine and so is wanting to make changes to it if that is what you want. But your identity is just fine. You don't need these arseholes rooting around in your head. It's your head!
The thing I find fascinating about this garbo from conversion effort peddlers is that I actually had an eating disorder 20+ years ago. I was anorexic. It was a control mechanism because I was being refused support to get medical help around being trans.
I couldn't get the help I needed and I took it out on my body. It was one of the few things I could still control. The irony of hearing these people talking about transness as an eating disorder isn't lost on me.
I've reached the point in this fucking podcast where she talks about trans girls having a phobia of their bodily hair and how for some people maybe gender dysphoria is negative feelings about their body and I have to laugh.
Do I regret that 20ish years of hrt mean I don't have much body hair? No I fucking don't. But I don't have a phobia of body hair. I love my fuzzy trans (and cis!) bros. Body hair is great on them.
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