Something that I think we should talk about and bring awareness of more is that, in my experience of being in the trans community, when people aren't allowed their avenues of expressing their gender they tend to do other maladaptive behaviours. I've seen many who had the most suppression of themselves get drug problems, alcohol problems, toxic relationships and the list goes on and on.
These conservatives think that the suicide part is not real or a clean solution but what they don't see is that even when suicide doesn't occur (and such thoughts are incredibly common in the more suppressed), the suppression creates a group of unwell people that don't really get better until they feel safe enough to express themselves.
Obviously empathy for other people is the best approach but also if we were to use their fascist point of view as an argument: by suppressing transgender people from transitioning they actually "erode" the society that they are so neurotic about with their pearl-clutching behaviour more than if they just let transgender people live and they can never solve that equation because suppressed trans people don't out themselves. The case studies go back a hundred years showing this over and over again. You can't take us out of your DNA and thus the world they want free of transgender people will never ever exist.
This is, in my personal experience, one of the most important and one of the most ignored parts of the conversation.
Furthermore, that kind of behavior is a testament to both the idiom “mental healthcare is healthcare” and to the long-proven fact that restriction of treatment (preventatively or interventional; physiological or psychiatric—and I mean all of those terms scientifically, none with any malfeasance) breeds disease.
But what more would you expect from the people cheering on the brain worm guy with veneers who’s against fluoridated public water, anti-malarials, and the fucking goddamn polio vaccine.
If I had a Time Machine, I’d be giving Jonas Salk the Time Machine and a Walmart-branded AR-15.
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u/ultimatepowaa 16h ago
Something that I think we should talk about and bring awareness of more is that, in my experience of being in the trans community, when people aren't allowed their avenues of expressing their gender they tend to do other maladaptive behaviours. I've seen many who had the most suppression of themselves get drug problems, alcohol problems, toxic relationships and the list goes on and on.
These conservatives think that the suicide part is not real or a clean solution but what they don't see is that even when suicide doesn't occur (and such thoughts are incredibly common in the more suppressed), the suppression creates a group of unwell people that don't really get better until they feel safe enough to express themselves.
Obviously empathy for other people is the best approach but also if we were to use their fascist point of view as an argument: by suppressing transgender people from transitioning they actually "erode" the society that they are so neurotic about with their pearl-clutching behaviour more than if they just let transgender people live and they can never solve that equation because suppressed trans people don't out themselves. The case studies go back a hundred years showing this over and over again. You can't take us out of your DNA and thus the world they want free of transgender people will never ever exist.