"You can't make someone be trans."
Lui from @Mermaids_Gender says the transitioning process is “rigorous” and that the experiences of detransitioners should not be used to suggest that people are “being pressured or made into being trans"
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Replying to @BBCNewsnight @Mermaids_Gender
As someone who went through the transitioning process, I can confirm that it was, in fact, anything but rigorous. Transition was presented not only as the best option, but the only option to alleviate my dysphoria. Testosterone and a mastectomy did not help me.
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Replying to @ImWatson91 @AdMeliora9 and
As someone going through it, I can confirm this is false. It may literally kill me having to wait for the medical treatment I need.
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I'm sorry you're struggling with the wait. But your experiance doesn't change the fact that for me, the transition process was not rigorous at all.
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Replying to @ImWatson91 @AdMeliora9 and
It sounds to me like you must have lied to them.
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Replying to @Chr1stinaG @AdMeliora9 and
Or at least given informed consent. But imagine taking responsibility for your own life decisions.
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Replying to @karamantha @Chr1stinaG and
Yeah, fuck me for being young and depressed and confused, assuming that my psychiatrist would help me.
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Replying to @ImWatson91 @AdMeliora9 and
And the multiple surgeons you must have got sign offs from?
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I travelled to Manchester general in 2017 for my mastectomy, through the referral I was given from the Sandyford clinic in Glasgow. Believe me or don't, I don't have to prove anything to you.
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