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Originally Posted by Big_Japan
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If I believed this were possible, I would without reservation. But the fact is that this is a direction only someone who were desperately confused and in danger would walk in, and the effects are irreversible. Not to say that it's impossible for it to be one of many trials on a path to enlightenment -- only that it's a trial from which only bad things including death can result. The only good that could possibly come of it is realizing what a fool's errand it is and surviving.
This is the scenario I wish were guaranteed to play out.
Transitioning isn't something you can just do and undo. The sky-high suicide rate on postop trannies isn't indicative of a good proportion of people surviving that trauma and journeying further toward the light. This is an irreversible step, and distinct from legitimate methods of pursuing happiness in that regard.
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What's wrong with just accepting that being trans or transitioning is just a state of being some people have in this life? Why does it have to be a bad thing? It can be. It sometimes isn't.
That suicide rate is a different boatload of factors, and I would like to know what my suicide rate would be if I didn't transition?
Pre-transition I was suicidal every day. I was making plans. I was expecting the worst. I was expecting to die in a park like dayse. I was having a horrible life.
Now I rarely feel that way. I have a desire to live as me. And I'm grateful every day I can be me. I care about my life and the life of those around me in a way that I never did pre-transition. Because pre-transition I was hurt, angry, and confused, and "less then".
Trans people still deal with "less then" but it's better to be dealing with it than avoiding it just for some shitty cis male privilege.