I recognize that gender dysphoria can manifest in many different ways and different people are going to find that different treatments work best for them but I in no way support "alternative treatments for gender dysphoria" that are really conversion therapy/practices.
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Not everyone needs to medically transition but often "alternatives to transition" is just a euphemism for conversion practices. There's nothing healthy or feminist about suppressing who you are or denying yourself something that could make you happier.
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Accepting one's body without modification is not inherently good or superior to transitioning. Transitioning isn't selling out, betraying women/lesbians, indulging mental illness or whatever. How many people would go for "alternatives" if transition wasn't stigmatized?
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Transitioning is often the best treatment for dysphoria and when that's the case, it doesn't make sense to deny one's self that treatment. It has risks just like any other medical treatment but the solution to that is more research to reduce the risks and improve it over time.
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This is where I landed when I finally made the mental leap to understand my feelings about my body were gender dysphoria. I had a ton of self-hatred/TERFy beliefs, but as soon as I bridged that gap it was like "Why would I deny myself a treatment that could improve this?"
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(Before that time my egg brain was like "it's SO UNFAIR that trans men can just claim to have 'gender dysphoria' and get to call themselves men while I am here stuck in this hated female body being female, why oh why, lord, have you cursed me?")
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