Height Dysphoria

I don't want to lose any more height

That's even worse because you were what you aren't anymore. It's not that you want to be what your not, and you're not just wanting to be, you were what you were, but what you were is not what you are. Thoughts and prayers.

Soo purr invahli day ding

‘Super invalidating’ tells us everything in just 2 words.

I seem to remember reading somewhere (can anyone confirm?) that giving girls puberty blockers tended to leave them even smaller on average than other girls, as it would block their growth spurt, but boys given them could end up even taller than average as it stopped the end of their growth phase, or something along those lines. Which could explain some of these photos, if that's true.

The shrinking thing is it a combination of stooping as you age plus the squishy bits between the bits in your spine (can you tell I'm not a medical bod) compressing and not springing back like it used to!

I don't want to lose any more height, It's already bad enough no longer being the height I've been since primary school!

What can I say... I am a 6ft bloke built like a brick layer, in my mid 30s.

The person staring back in the mirror is a 50+ 5'1" pear shaped woman with greying hair. I have NO idea who she is.

Ha, I raise you, i lost an inch. Ffs. I was tall once upon a time.
How the hell do we shrink.
Will I lose another inch? More?

My bestie mate in the whole world was once 4"10
I swear they are much much smaller now, even though I lost an inch I still tower over her.

She is however still bloody feisty as ever and wonderful. Still I've not measured yet but I reckon she's only 4ft now.

I just bet she has height dysphoria

I definitely have that age dysphoria.
I'm 27. I have been for the last 25 years.
It's really upsetting for me when I look in the mirror and see an Aul Wan looking back at me 🫣

I honestly never had a problem with my height, what with it being bog standard average until I was measured recently during a hospital appointment. She misheighted me. At least I thought she had. But after another two rounds of being measured and misheighted I discovered that I've shrunk by an inch.

I'm still identifying as 5 foot 7 though. No one can actually tell I'm only 5 foot 6. I totally pass as 5 foot 7.

I feel that the advice in the article to go and observe real people in a supermarket to see the diverse make up of society is really sound and should be applied to anyone who considers they may be trans. Way before they transition. Not when they have done the trans bit and then feel they need some perspective.

Surely you can just identify as taller.
It doesn't matter if the reality doesn't match, just deny facts and insist that anyone who doesn't walk around on their knees so you can look down on them is committing genocide.

😂 no worries, I knew what you meant.

Show me a person alive who doesn't look in the mirror and think 'this isn't the body I want'

Be wary of anyone offering conversion therapy, which is an unethical and ineffective program designed to change someone's sexual orientation or gender identity, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)

'Merica has truly lost the plot. I suppose there aren't many opportunities for growth in a mature economy.

Not you @ApocalipstickNow . Just the whole thing

I'm a 6' woman. I also have short hair. I've been misgendered (sob) and called Sir or Mate a lot, but I have just, you know, got on with it, and never considered chopping my legs off or trying to pretend I was a man...
Is this "cis privilege"...? 🙄

And yet, I still have been catcalled, sexually assaulted and physically assaulted so I wouldn't say I have entirely escaped the grip of patriarchy...

That is the dumbest thing I ever heard.

I’m 4’11” and I’ve worked in both secondary and primary school. Kids physically pick me up.

I just wanted to share.

This is some sort of repurposed short man syndrome isn’t it?

Oh FFS...

I'm not overweight, I'm underheighted. I claim oppression!

It makes sense that Trans men are likely to shorter than the average bio men and trans women are more likely to be taller than the average bio woman. Biology is biology after all. We have tall and short genes in our family .

Is everything you don't like about yourself dysphoria now?

That picture looks like someone's been running amok with face swap. A bunch of freakishly aged children. No wonder the Doctor is smiling (kerching!), medication for life, that's his pension. They might even leave him a bequest, they're unlikely to have children to leave it to.

A gender doula!