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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.
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.
The trans community has done, in my opinion, an incredible job of normalizing those differences and encouraging people to accept and even celebrate them.
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.
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.
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.
I wish we talked about that more. I tweeted earlier about how I don't at all regret starting HRT, but I wish someone would have told me,"Your dysphoria will improve but your self-esteem is gonna take a huge hit when acne ravages your skin." Being prepared would have been nice.
My dysphoria got worse post-accepting I was trans but pre-passing. This was something I was prepared for, but even so I had moments wondering if I was a victim of social contagion.
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