I feel like if a lot of dysphoric individuals would get a chance to look at actual gender critical theory before being indoctrinated into the new-age trans community, a lot of them would probably be pretty into it.
I mean, who doesn’t want to live in a world where sex is just a bio marker and isn’t something that people use against you? One where you can dress and act as you please without the worry of being too feminine or masculine? Where your identity has nothing to do with your sex and people don’t oppress you based off of it?
That’s the kind of world most of us want. It’s the kind of world that would actually be pretty beneficial to them. Yet, many of them are taught to hate these ideas and instead promote outdated stereotypes. They’re taught to deny basic biology instead of getting rid of this culture that lets people treat others differently because of it. They’re taught that if they try hard enough, they’ll become the person they’re “supposed to be”, when in reality there is nothing wrong with them in the first place other than how society judges them based off of stereotypes.
The trans community sets its members up for failure. It gives them a goal that they’ll never achieve. It gives them this idea that all they have to do is change everything about themselves to fix their issues. Yet, the real problem lies outside of them. The real problem is the idea of gender. The real problem is the patriarchy. They never realize this, and thus they often blame themselves for everything, when in reality, the problem was never one that they could fix on their own.
It’s a sad lie that more and more young people are being taught.
I understand where this is coming from and I agree to an extent
But I’m dysphoric because of my sex. That’s literally the cause of my dysphoria. It is a me problem, not an outside problem
I’m dysphoric because I’m female. Because I have a vagina/vulva. Because I have breasts. Because I have female secondary sex characteristics.
Getting rid of gender won’t change that fact. Getting rid of gender doesn’t change the fact people with sex dysphoria will still have sex dysphoria
@spooky-rad-luka I think you’re right that a lot of people even in a genderless world would still suffer from sex dysphoria but do you think it’s possible in some cases dysphoria develops because of the way we gender bodies. I know many radfem lesbians think their dysphoria developed because of homophobia, being attracted to women made them think they should be men and dysphoria developed from that?
That I definitely agree with
Which is funny because in the tags to your pissy response, you accused me of not having dysphoria.
Which is a funny assumption for a trans person to make about anyone, really.
After all, you don’t know me, how I identify or if I have dysphoria.
(If you had asked, I would have told you that I absolutely was dysphoric as a teenaged girl with a taste for the hard sciences and a sex-drive geared towards women. The difference is that I didn’t transition because I was born a decade before this trend.)
Yea that was a really hyper aggressive response to what seemed to be general questions. General, hey let’s critically think about this, not even inherently directed at you questions. Do you not question anything? How do you plan to prepare for things? To help yourself? If you just say, fuck it, what happens, happens that’s fine. It doesn’t mean others will stop thinking and trying to find solutions. It really is telling, how incredibly defensive you got @spooky-rad-luka
The thing is — those should be standard questions prior to any surgery!
“Are you prepared for…”
I’ve had… so many surgeries I literally just had to stop and count the scars. I’m looking at four major ones to date, with the almost-certainty of a few more to come.
And those were to remove BONE TUMOURS, and I was still asked, every time, if I was aware and cognizant of the fact that these surgeries would affect my body for years down the road.
If those questions upset you, you’re not psychologically prepared for ANY surgery.
Fortunately, these surgeries are elective. You have the time to answer those questions and plan. You can’t get any more female, you know; it’s not like you get girlier with every breath.
So take one or two, and plan your shit.
If you are unprepared for the long term — which is to say, menopause, ageing, the life-long reliance on pharmaceuticals and the very real and present danger of blood clots, cancer, heart disease, liver and kidney damage and strokes, and the subsequent ageing that will necessitate long-term care regardless of your mental status… you’re going to be in for a nasty shock down the way.
Are you prepared to be a 95 year old trans man in a senior’s home, being cared for by Personal Support Workers who may not know, or care, about your gender identity?
If not, how do you intend on addressing that? Let me tell you, “respect my identity!” becomes a lot less demanding when you can’t even shake a cane at them.
Are you prepared for contingencies?
What happens if you move and your pharmaceuticals are no longer provided? What if the supply chain fails? What if the world enters into a decline or a dark age — which sounds tinfoil hatty, but have you SEEN the news recently? We’re in the Decadence phase of empire, and the subsequent phase is Collapse. Rome was eternal… until it wasn’t.
What then?
Do you have contingencies and redundancies?
And are you prepared to address those like an adult?
Because if you’re not… you should hold off until you can. Otherwise, you’ll borrowing trouble with no backup plan, and that’s always bad news.
These questions, by the way, are for you to answer. This isn’t a quiz, I’m not grading shit. But answer them honestly, and see what that tells you.
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