@MavenOfMayhem @makesweirdart 1/ May I, as a woman who was forced by the highly abusive psychiatrists of the UK NHS in the 1940/50/60s (their "treatment", if one tried to transition, was being locked in asylums & tortured with electro-convulsive shocks to wipe the mind), to "ride it out" until 21, add that…
@MavenOfMayhem @makesweirdart 2/…the trauma, & many body changes are irrecoverable or need costly & very painful treatment to ease. The pain & regret from being denied help available elsewhere, from the totally lost childhood & teens, the tensions & stress in the family, which can easily destroy the…
@MavenOfMayhem @makesweirdart 3/… family, destroy others lives too, perhaps prevent siblings ever being conceived, the distraction from, even destruction of educational opportunities, & the restricted life choices & economic deprivation, even dangers that follow from that, are all unnecessary, & abuse too.
@MavenOfMayhem @makesweirdart 4/ All that ignored the evidence of hundreds of years of acceptance in 🇵🇰🇮🇳🇧🇩🇹🇭🇳🇵🇲🇲, & that we are #BornThisWay 📽️. Those abusive psychiatrists have never apologised. These people now terming affirming families "abusers" are their successors.
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