ALL: Would removing "real life experience" requirements from trans healthcare benefit everyone?

submitted by ntr4ctrAdult Male with gender dysphoria from (self.GCdebatesQT)

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[–]comradeconradical 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I'd advocate for radical acceptance, body positivity, and non-gender based therapy over genital mutilation.

[–]ntr4ctrAdult Male with gender dysphoria[S] 1 insightful - 4 fun1 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 4 fun -  (6 children)

As far as I'm concerned, having to have a penis is the "mutilation" at play here. If someone surgically attached a penis to you that you didn't want, you'd feel mutilated, right? You wouldn't just tell yourself "body positivity" and try to keep it and get used to it. I can assure you that the fact that I was born with one makes it no less distressing for me.

[–]comradeconradical 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

lol your natural body is not 'mutilation', how insulting to people who have actually been mutilated.

Just because you have a mental issue with your body, doesn't make your body the issue.

[–]adungitit 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

If someone surgically attached a penis to you that you didn't want, you'd feel mutilated, right?

It's baffling that you assume mentally healthy people would ever assume that a healthy, natural part of their body is "mutilating them".

[–]ntr4ctrAdult Male with gender dysphoria[S] 1 insightful - 5 fun1 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 5 fun -  (3 children)

well you've never had to feel the disgusting sensation of having that part stuck on you, so what gives you the right to tell me I should have to be subjected to it for the rest of my life?

[–]ColoredTwiceIntersex female, medical malpractice victim, lesbian 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I will tell you a secret, majority of teen girls feeling very uncomfortable or hateful towards their bodies. Almost every woman grown up through body dysmorphia. This does not mean we all must be mutilating ourselves to remove our healthy organs we are distressed. This way humanity would end, as it will affect almost all women. You should be trying to accept yourself or fight patriarchy that is causing such distress instead. Blaming women for all is just wrong, demanding women to share our spaces because you feeling uncomfortable is an abuse, demanding women to fight for you and strip out our rights to suit you is manipulation and entitlement, privilegy.

[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What gives you the right to expect women to care about your personal demons? What gives you the right to frame women as somehow guilty of causing your distress? What makes your distress so urgent that women who don’t know you should perform emotional labor for you, and vote in your interest?

[–]adungitit 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I am not telling you anything except that it's not sane in the slightest to think it's "mutilation" to have a normal healthy body. You shouldn't project conclusions born out of a severe mental illness onto the rest of the population, it gives you a distorted image of what a healthy mentality looks like.