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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Replying to @e_urq
I also think that, although we've come a long way even since I've transitioned, there's too much emphasis placed on the idea that transition 'makes you happy'. It doesn't. Life is still hard. You (may) still have dysphoria. Living as a trans person is hard.
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I see so many young people questioning whether they're 'really trans' because transition hasn't solved all their problems. I can totally see how someone like K Bell would fall victim to that thinking.
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It's weird, having transitioned in my thirties. I wish I'd transitioned earlier- my life would undoubtedly have been better and easier overall. But transitioning as an adult doubtless made my transition itself much easier. I had a mature understanding of what I was getting into.
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If I'd transitioned younger I'd have had no conception of all the pain and difficulty I was avoiding, and a much harder time with the transition itself, so I can imagine it being confusing for me. Maybe even so confusing I'd detrans-retrans.
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I socially transitioned in my late teens and started t when I was twenty, which means I never tried living as an adult butch woman before transitioning. A lot of my detransition was about getting to explore that option. I don't regret transitioning young but if I had waited...
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...and gotten the chance to live as a butch woman for a while, I might not have ended up detransitioning. I think I would've eventually figured out I'm a transmasc/butch dyke one way or another, but there's a bunch of different ways I could've gotten to where I am now.
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