To detransitioners of Twitter, do you believe transition can help some gender dysphoric people and thus should remain an option, or do you believe transition is always harmful and thus should be removed as an option?
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Replying to @ImWatson91 @Anyechka
Im detransitioned "socially" as in Ill be upfront about what I am, but was SO grateful I had the ability to acquire bottom surgery (when I could afford to do so without tax dollars) same to be said of hormones. I have few regrets in the material choices Ive made. But the 1/
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practices around "diagnosis", are questionable. 3 "trans care specialists" told me they couldn't give because its about how I "feel inside". they gave me hormones after one visit. and I only needed two appointments at two different trans care psychologists/therapists for 2/
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bottom surgery letters. The two visits model is fairly common i understand. Most care providers told me that the process would only take two visits for letters. Yet Im told by TRAs (even in my state) that they had to prove they were living "as women" for a year and had 3/
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Therapy for as long. I have difficulty believing it when EVERY trans care provider I spoke to or interviewed was in no way critical, and basically just went off the way I was dressed. It should be an option, but shown more care in diagnosis perhaps. surgery is permanent
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I also feel it should be optional, as I know trans folk who genuinely seem to have benefited from it. But I also experienced what you did – none of the care providers were critical in any way, I was never challenged, and I was given hormones after only a few visits to the clinic
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