The information did exist, and every activist and medical professional has been playing an active role in suppressing that information.

Now that the backlash is forming in the wings, suddenly all this info about the side effects of puberty blockers and hormone therapy are suddenly grand revelations again.

I really cant express how angry it gets me having watched this all unfold. Wishing you the best OP.

There are no winners in the victim Olympics. For all the oppression and would be hardships faced, you don't have to be afraid of getting found out and pushed off a 4 story building for it.

Yep. If you arent useful to the agenda or the cause, you get called a terf or whatever else to be shut up and removed from the last place you are told you will be accepted. Its very intention is to break your spirit and get you to tow the line.

You are basically correct.

Any ideas you have on masculinity are from the mind of you, as you are, as you have been born, raised, and what you experienced between then and now. Shaped and impacted by all of those internal and external factors: which at no point, will or ever can, make you a man.

Keeping that context is a good thing to do, and from there the situation becomes discovering what you need to think, do, or experience in order to let said dysphoria stop weighing you down in life. Best of luck!

It undermines their agenda.

They have to signal to their compatriots they are fighting the good fight.

Bitterness and resentment that they failed to get this sub canceled.

Bad actors intentionally trying to recruit / convert people.

Any or all of the above.

right wing? Eeeewwwww, how problematic.

Everyone here doing this routine is on the same level as the trans groups that dismiss this entire sub.

If you want to blast the study for being poorly sourced and the rest of it, by all means. But its depressing to see the bandwagoning taking root here.

The writing has been on the wall for generations, sadly, frustration beyond belief is all i can feel when watching and hearing this time and time again.

A tangent, if you will.

Treating it like its trendy? A fad? Just wanting to belong to a group and have a special prefix before what you want to call yourself? All incredibly shallow and vapid?

Yes. Because it is. Merely identifying as something different now comes with a large selection of privileges and advantages, enabled and pandered too by corporations and politically motivated actors.

Immediate acceptance into the collective with no downsides granted you say what must be said, and act how you must act. There is nothing geniuine or authentic about whats happening here, everyone can see it: and unless you are willing to risk your livelihood and reputation, all you can do is sit and watch: lest you become the bigot, the phobe, and the next target.

Anyone who has the slightest issue with these wolves in sheeps clothing, are the captive audiences to it all. Watching as it all spirals out of control, and people ride the good feelings of acceptance into hurting themselves in ways they can never undo.physically, emotionally, or otherwise.

And all of this is just surface level stuff. The manipulation, corruption, and subversion runs much deeper and is much more malicious than that. Pushing people who are actually trying to find answers or happiness into all the wrong places, spaces, and furthering the confusion and dysfunction.

A culture being promoted thats chief objective is to create unknowing victims. While this sub goes a long way in pushing back against the madness of it all, there is so much more that needs doing. Its disheartening.

Sorry for my babbling. The best thing you can do is focus on yourself, your desires, your life goals, and work towards them. The craziness around you is only temporary, unless you make it permanent. You shouldn't let shallow people motivate equally shallow actions right?

It'll take at a bare minimum, 1-2 generations of this before any serious change starts to take place / swing back into normalcy.

Stricktly because its political and so long as a phenomenon or culture can be pushed and pandered to for votes, it will be.

I suppose another large contributing factor is that the worst consequences of hormonal issues take decades to present themselves.

Its a terrible idea.

Synthetic hormones aren't like painkillers to just pop every time you have a feeling.

Each and every dose is going to accumulate permanent changes in your body. Some of which may become readily apparent, others which may not manifest for 10+ years. Most of which will not be pleasant.

Even as a last resort to someones issues I'm hesitant to suggest it, especially as time moves forward and the current generation of detransitioners discover more and more unforeseen consequences of hormone use.

Your setting yourself up for a lot of trouble with no refunds.

You've just been using transition as a form of escapism. You can only run from your problems for so long before they catch up to you.

Ignoring your problems is easier than facing them, so living life as a boy has been easier. Naturally.

If being Trans was even remotely a solution to your issues, you wouldn't be so cripplingly ashamed of it. It's just temporarily keeping the negative emotions away, but all of those feelings are going to compound and multiply, then somewhere in your late 20's you'll still be feeling just as miserable about yourself, but bewildering why you spent a decade doing nothing concrete about it.

What should you do? Face your problems and resolve the issues you have with yourself. How can you do that? It depends on if anything I've said "clicks" at all.

Wild how thinking that kids with their physically smaller brains just might not be experts on anything, is a crazy concept these days.

Even if a girl picks up a toy lawnmower or likes shorter hair, i wouldn't go out of my way to say "great! Look how GNC you are!".

Its a kid being a kid, enjoying whatever fascinates them within the moment. It doesn't need to be called anything or even pointed out.