I've been reading about Keira Bell, the 23 year old who wants to prevent other 16 yr olds from accessing puberty blockers because her gender dysphoria wasn't sufficiently relieved by treatment.https://www.bbc.com/news/health-51676020 …
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The story is interesting to me because of what is and isn't said about how Keira now feels about her gender identity. Keira doesn't claim to be happy or non-dyshoric as a woman, the BBC instead reports that she is "now accepting of her sex as a female."
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This grudging, uncomfortable acceptance of being a woman is even more clearly presented in the Daily Mail article, which says she believes changing sex is "an impossible quest." (Keira also speaks of feeling happy and relieved when she took steps to transition.)
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For the most part, detransitioners are just people for whom a treatment worked imperfectly, or insufficiently. That's expected, for all medical treatments. If they could quote Keira as saying she was comfortable in her body now, they would.
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99% of trans people can live with a post-transition body being different from a natal body of the same sex. I found it easier and easier to do so- in pre- transition and early transition I was far more upset with the fact that I'd never have the body of a natal man.
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But there's this tiny sliver of people for whom the distance between themselves and natal males or females looms large. They (in my opinion neurotically) over-focus on that, becoming less happy with the changes they've gone through over time.
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This focus on small imperfections is actually much more like body-dysmorphia than gender dysphoria. Perhaps therapy could help them accept what transition can and can't do?
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