It’s not a thing that you find out you have and then you’re dead in two days, certainly not. But before I started taking hormones, I had suicidal ideation every day. When I got the right hormones in me, the thoughts just weren’t there any more. Just like that. And quite frankly it’s a miracle that I didn’t act on those thoughts. In that sense it is life threatening, very actively. And I don’t know why the thoughts went away or why they were there to begin with, but it’s a common experience.
Gwen
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Gender dysphoria is actually life threatening, though. Kinda hard to explain, but please have some empathy for us, it’s incredibly difficult to be forced to life someone else’s life. Nothing is your own.
This will directly result in deaths, as it already has in other countries that did the same.
That sucks, RLE tests are real life torture. :/
Have you considered Imago? Way cheaper than GGP.
Certainly is working as intended, as a means to torture us. But I think it’s also intended to have an appearance of being fair, and that part is breaking down. It’s designed for a time when trans people were not allowed to talk with other trans people. Now it turns out that there are several orders of magnitude more of us than were able to get through the gatekeeping in the old days. No gatekeeping system can scale up to the level needed to give all trans people the care they need.
Informed consent is the only humane way forward and the current breakdown of the system makes this the right time to finally demand change.
Rant: I legit had a psychologist ask me why I came out ”so late”. When I was a teenager our country had about a dozen people being allowed to transition per year. A dozen and she wondered why I wasn’t one of them. That’s when gatekeeping was ”working”. It’s a miracle I’m alive after all these years. There were several rules in place to prohibit someone like me from transititioning back then, but I’m like most trans people I meet these days. It’s highly unlikely that you, the one reading this, would have been allowed through.
Maybe gatekeeping doesn’t work.
Not sure if anyone else mentioned it, but be sure to stop biotin (can be in supplements, esp. for hair, energy drinks, etc) three days ahead of the blood test. It messes up the E2 blood test results.
Go for it
I went through the same thing and it was a recurring source of dysphoria for me until I started HRT. Crying rocks!
Nah. I have spent a lifetime wishing for unrealistic transition options. HRT, SRS an FFT are close enough to magic.
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Counterpoint: would you sleep with a dude? (If yes then more power to you, hehe)