Holy buckets that is sad all around. It's lovely and admirable to think that the way a person feels about themselves internally could supersede or even just dictate the way their body functions, but I don't know how there can be evidence like what happened to those athletes that professionals would ignore. Like in that article they say the trainers and doctors already knew the risks and harm, so they already knew way back then? How does that get forgotten or ignored?

I hadn't heard of Matt Kailey before, but reading his article and then what happened to him... that's dark and really compounds the worry. Hopefully it isn't the case, but I could see just some condition being made up called something like Sudden Trans Health Failure to describe an apparent rise in health problems in trans people and just have that be its own thing so as not to blame exogenous cross-sex hormones or surgical procedures. The lengths so many professionals (and much of the public) are going to to avoid scrutinizing transition-related medicine and healthcare is astonishing.