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Devastating article by trans man Scott Nugent about the reality of transitioning

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SocialConnection · 25/11/2021 11:38

'what I would say to the therapists that pushed me to medical transition'

www.trevoices.org/post/this-time-i-will-rise-up-years-later-what-i-would-say-to-the-therapists-that-pushed-me-to-med-trans

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EmbarrassingHadrosaurus · 25/11/2021 11:54

There is a reason that Scott is one of the transmen who have been targeted so heavily this year: the commitment to being accurate and honest about the experience.

I remember seeing this from Scott earlier:

The point is that, as Scott writes, "trans health doesn't really have a justiciable baseline." If a surgeon botches your gall bladder operation, there are criteria by which to judge him or her. Or mastectomies, a relatively simple and straightforward procedure.
But, although increasingly common nowadays, "bottom surgery," still relatively rare compared to most surgeries, is extremely complex and fraught with potential downsides, even those done by competent surgeons. Not all gender dysphoric children go on to bottom surgery as adults, but gender dysphoric adults are the only people who get bottom surgery. The risks associated with these surgeries is something the "affirming" community should be—but are not—communicating to parents of dysphoric children. Instead, parents are led to believe that the lifelong medical interventions they are guiding their children toward (it is well known now that virtually all children who take puberty blockers go on to cross-sex hormones) are a benign sidebar to the holy grail of gender transition.

thepostmillennial.com/transman-twitter-banned-for-speaking-against-gender-transition-of-children-fights-back?s=04

ScrollingLeaves · 25/11/2021 12:33

He has given a forceful account and judgement of the terrible experience he had at the Hans of so called therapists.

ScrollingLeaves · 25/11/2021 12:34

I am sorry - hands not Hans

Scraggythang · 25/11/2021 12:49

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Scraggythang · 25/11/2021 13:12

Ah! But of course. Hmm

On another note, Scott’s anger on Twitter (before they were banned for life) was palatable. Fantastically tenacious when it comes to the horrors affirmation therapy and surgery and justifiably so. I’m glad he’s still shouting loudly.

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