A fucking men sister. But if we say that we're being erased (to "progressives", none the less) WE'RE the problem. WE'RE transphobic.🤦‍♀️ Not to mention a lot of these people are biological men (i.e we're back to the classic men oppress women, just with extra steps).

There will never be an accurate statistic for the number of people who detransition as long as academia continues to be woke leftists. It's probably closer to 10-20% from what I've seen. Not to mention, the trans trend started within the last 5 years (and it sure as hell is real), so imo we're just starting to see the first wave of detransitions.

A lot of trans womanness is focused on being a stereotypical woman (hyper feminine), reinforcing damaging stereotypes against women. Women are most certainly being erased by the trans community. There's evidence of this in your own post-- we're not "women" anymore. We're "cis women". The erasing of women doesn't have to happen in order for trans people to be treated properly. However, you do need to find your own space instead of changing ours, and we should help with that.

trans women dominating women's sports, trans women claiming to have and trying to relate to bio women's periods, telling bio women how to refer to and behave with trans women, changing the labeling of the female identity, taking media platforms and awards away from women (ex: woman of the year), trying to emulate/spreading female stereotypes, trans women being the most vocal in female spaces, trans women shaping the idea of a "woman". It is because of the trans movement that no one can even define what a woman is anymore without a list of caveats or over generalizations. and I think all of this hurts trans women and the trans community. Yall deserve and desperately need your own space in society. That's how you get away from having to present as hyper feminine in order to pass or to avoid being mistreated. Trans women equal women, but they aren't the same, their needs aren't the same, and we need to stop treating them as such. You shouldn't be mistreated for failing to emulate a woman, you should be allowed to be trans and look trans. I also want to iterate that none of this is the trans communities fault, yall are just trying to survive (which unfortunately means you have to look like a stereotypical woman).

I was born in 2002 and grew up right before all of this. I was allowed to be as tom boy as I wanted and I sure as hell was. Just turned 21 and I haven't changed much but I have absolutely not desire to be a dude. I do feel that because I'm nothing like the sorority girls and not a guy, I don't fit in to any crowd. But that it okay, I found my people in uni.

psychedelics could be potentially powerful in treating mental illness, for example mini brains (brain cells grown in labs) have been treated with psychedelics and responded in ways that could suggest they reduce the brain activity that leads to addiction, depression, etc (which might be why some people quit addictions after a shroom trip). The issue is these mini brains are not enough to know the full effects without human testing (which we can't do). There is way more to psychedelics than we know.

Im not going to lie to you, being trans is really rare from a biological standpoint (believe it or not-- a condition that makes you want to change a fundamental part of your body and brain at very high risk to self is rare). Its my personal opinion that only around ~5% of trans people are truly meant to be trans. This is also supported by the fact that being trans openly only began to become feasible 4/5 years ago. I believe we're seeing a cascade of detransitions because its been enough time for people to realize. I'm also willing to bet the trans subreddit overestimates the number of trans people there because family/friends also join (not sure if you have to prove you're trans to join).

Your comparison between the ability of medicine to grow hearts and replicate body parts on rats vs its ability to have safe trans surgery isn't accurate. It is much more difficult to change large body parts through surgery on an adult human than it is to use DNA to grow organs (which is much easier because DNA has the instructions for us, we just add the ingredients it needs). Rats, on the other hand, we can do a lot with because there are no consequences to messing up (and messing with their genome to create mutations like that is relatively easy compared to surgery). I feel like we've downplayed how invasive trans surgery is. Imagine if you had a food transplanted from your own skin and an arm removal. Heart transplants are still risky and often deadly procedures that take dozens of hours, the same is true of every transplant/removal surgery like this.

You were 14 when you transitioned. You probably aren't trans. Children aren't capable of making accurate, long term decisions like this. I'm sorry. Please don't be a victim of the sunk cost fallacy. Do some research into your options and think carefully about why you transitioned in the first place. It's okay to change your mind about things, especially as you grow during your teenage years.

I kinda sound like you, but I live happily as a tomboyish woman. I used to think I was a rare species, but then I went to uni and surrounded myself with a lot of women like me. I don't really think of myself as a woman all the time, but I know I am one and I just don't really have a conscious thought of that somehow dictating how I behave. Sorry if this isn't very clear, just trying to help!