Trans and health: reality bites

[QAOPspaceman]

Maybe affirming people's fantasies doesn't help them or anyone else

www.theguardian.com/society/2024/sep/19/trans-people-england-missing-vital-cancer-screening

Surely all they need to do is identify as someone who doesn't have cancer?

I agree. I find it interesting in the stories of detransitioning women, how often they mention that at the height of transition for them it was all about control. Who was controlled and willing to be controlled, who was not and therefore was cut off. Declaring pronouns is frequently a basic short cut statement of power and status. It basically goes "do you submit to my controlling your language and behaviours in our interactions?"

Many of us were warning about this in 2016, perhaps earlier. I wrote to my MP warning about exactly this issue.

Control issues - very similar to anorexia.

Wasn’t there a case in America a few years ago when I transman died because no one could work out why they were in such pain? As the records etc said male no one had thought that being in labour might be the cause.

As for the transman who had a hysterectomy to avoid having to have a smear, I thought (but I might very well be wrong) that a hysterectomy left your cervix intact.

And the aspect of needs being met by setting people up so that they cannot do right for doing wrong, and you're permanently entitled to be upset and angry with them.

We're back to cutted up pear.

When I was at the Zoo earlier this week, I saw a poster that said that the average lifespan of a female orangutan was 60 years and that of a male, 50 years. And the first thought to enter my head (too obvious to state 😉) made me realise that I spend far too long on FWR.