According to this study it’s significant.
82.5% of those who have detransitioned attribute their decision to at least one external factor such as pressure from family, non-affirming school environments, and increased vulnerability to violence, including sexual assault.
I’d be perfectly fine with having some - now - several decades later.
I’m not at that point or anywhere near it yet. I’ll rely on the pics others have of me for that when the time comes.
I have never seen a study on this population, but have seen some anecdotal reports of folks getting tremendous blowback for transitioning and buckling to the pressure to “go back to how you used to be,” whether that was actually them or not. I have to suspect that this is a significant chunk of this 2%, but cannot prove that .
@anon53189944 That is exactly the study I need! Thank you very much!
Yeah, prior to accepting myself and transitioning, dysphoria provided me with stronger signals and I would tend to explain away the euphoria I would get from certain things. But now, euphoria feels much stronger than dysphoria. I can look in the mirror, see my beard shadow and just sigh, then I change the angle of my face slightly and slightly catch a glimpse of myself and any negative feelings melt away.
I don’t either.
I never even took pictures of myself. I am in family pictures and some that friends took.
In my case he was a stubborn bastard as well.
For example, here is a study on decision regret following hip and knee replacement surgeries.
Posssibly a repost, but I just found it and now I have a new earworm:
Actual performer is @yourpal_austin on TikTok (but tiktok embeds are the worst).
Taylor Swift’s Midnights dropped on Friday, but in anticipation of the release, the music maven posted a sizzle reel-style teaser video to her social media accounts Thursday night.
The clip features scenes from several upcoming videos — only the video for “Anti-Hero” has been released — that accompany the album. For LGBTQ+ Swifties, one of the people in the videos stood out.
From the looks of it, through the scenes that Swift revealed, trans model and actor Laith Ashley plays the singer’s love interest at various points.
Here we go- It’s on its way now.
Hearing about how crucial top surgery is for young transgender people makes me think that it’s because people literally look at your chest within a millisecond of meeting you, to decide whether you’re male or female and adjust how they interact with you based on that. So yeah, because society prioritizes what your chest looks like, it’s very important that it match one’s identity. Which makes me disappointed in humanity, simultaneous with being happy for trans youth who get to be themselves.
Mostly positive? Looks like the anti trans forces did not make gains in Ontario school boards.
If you look at the British press you would think we had lost. They are making a huge deal about the seven SNP MSPs who voted against it rather than the two thirds of MSPs who voted for it…
That could be interesting. I find beauty “contests” nauseatingly misogynistic myself, but will be interested to see where this goes.
The TERs will use it against us, but they will also use trans people protesting about beauty contests against us too. The best move is to say “fuck what they think!” and decide for yourself.
It wouldn’t be what I would choose to invest in. But it’s also good that it’s not owned by a guy and the owner isn’t western.
