I obviously don't know Keira Bell. But I have seen quotes from her that say, in effect, transition doesn't work because it doesn't change one's body enough. Which is... interesting.https://twitter.com/Lux_fae/status/1356689157557530625 …
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And, that really worries me. Because it is taking a truth that is very painful for some people, particularly binary trans people with the most severe dysphoria, and weaponizing it against them.
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It is, to be clear, a true thing. Many trans people experience no or extremely low dysphoria post-transition. But the results aren't perfect, and no one claims they are. There will usually be differences between a post-transition trans body and a cis body of the same gender.
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The trans community has done, in my opinion, an incredible job of normalizing those differences and encouraging people to accept and even celebrate them.
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For people with very severe gender dysphoria, this can be alienating. They can't just accept their way out of their continued symptoms. If that worked, none of us would transition in the first place! So It festers and eats at them, and turns them mean.
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Medical transition is such a personal process. For me, testosterone and binding was they key. I want top surgery bc I have asthma and binding isn't great for that, but otherwise I tolerate binding fine and wouldn't necessarily need surgery.
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For someone else, top surgery might be the key and HRT feels optional or even non-preferred. And, for someone else, HRT, top, and bottom surgery might be necessary- or even feel not quite good enough.
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I’ve seen two detrans women do this exactly, with the same kind of bitter self hate talk
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