"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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So where did you go through the process?
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Sandyford in Glasgow.
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According to their website these are the current waiting times. Rushed?pic.twitter.com/FaKWNOSRde
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As already mentioned in other tweets, I was seen at Sandyford in 2014. I can't speak for how they do things today.
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