There is no debate about the best way to treat gender dysphoria. A year and a half into hormone therapy, I genuinely don’t think I would ever experience dysphoria at all if not for fear that people taught to hate trans people might spot me. I love my body. It’s home.
Probably gonna regret saying this but I’ve had zero surgeries to get to this point and I’m not sure I will have any, and it is so frustrating to hear my rights debated by people with literally no idea what they’re saying who invoke surgery over and over again to scare people.
A year before coming out, I did have a bunch of procedures to correct some horrible varicose veins on one leg. It made me feel SO much more confident in my body and it was empowering to live in a society with the technology to make that happen.
And more of our conversation around medical interventions should look like that - what a technological marvel, that we can alter bodies to make them more habitable! You’d think trans people are the only people getting medical care in America from the political discourse.
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