These stories are so chilling. This story was published in March. Public discourse is so stifled at this point that I doubt BBC would publish anything like this again. That Nele believed her options were really transition or suicide - how many times have we heard that false binary? Harmless and reversible my ass. Getting a double mastectomy at 17, permanently changing your face and your voice, all of the time you lost when you could have actually been working on healing? Absolutely not harmless.

It's scary how familiar all of the feelings that Nele expressed are. What lesbian hasn't felt all of those things? We are already seeing the current environment that is so hostile to lesbians push lesbians to claim any other identity to escape it. And the shame, disgust, and discomfort with your body being objectified while society also telling you the many ways in which it will never match up -- what woman hasn't had those thoughts?

"I was afraid of ending the hormones and going back to my body. I didn't even know my natural body because I transitioned so early." Jesus.

And the next story recommended at the bottom of the article: 'I hated my homophobic stepdad, then he came out as trans.' What a surprise that story is. A gay boy's homophobic step-father is an autogynephile.