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    Hey folks.

    As a couple of you may know, shortly after I started a counselling course in January with a view to becoming a gender therapist, I started receiving counselling to help with some personal issues. One of those was getting in touch with some of my more controlled feelings. After a session yesterday, which was very unsettling for me, I woke up this morning not feeling like myself.A couple of the people here helped me break out of that mood, for which I'm very grateful. The reason I mention it here is because towards the end of a nice evening with my brother-in-law, we flipped the TV on and *that* episode of South Park was on. I watched about 5 minutes of it before my brother-in-law changed channel but I felt furious - more angry than I'd felt in a long, long time. I'm only an ally - I have no real idea what's like to live as a transgender person, only via accounts from friends. If I felt that angry about the way trans people are portrayed in the media as an ally, I can't even imagine what some of you must feel like as trans people. I hope in time I can harness my anger and use it to change things for the better, even if it's only on a very small scale.
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    That's not what I was talking about.

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    There are people who are only attracted to prepubescents. That is literally their sexual orientation. That doesn't mean that they are child abusers, but it means the temptation is always there. I know a fellow who is literally only attracted to prepubescent children. The thing is, he loves kids and doesn't want to hurt them, so what he does is stay as far away from sources of temptation as he can. But it's really hard for them to get help with it: Imagine going to your parents or a therapist and saying "I think I'm a pedophile," that story in no way ends well and I'm sure nobody here has any trouble imagining being blanket condemned for their orientation. I'm guessing every one of us here has a story of either themselves or a close friend being ostracized or assaulted in some way due to their sexual orientation. Only a few years ago same sex relationships were illegal most places, and even today there are parts of the world where homosexuality as an orientation even without acts can land you a prison sentence. Imagine how much worse if that orientation was one where there was relatively good reason for the upset. Imagine if every source of sexual release outside of fantasy and a few forms of fiction was literally engaging in or playing accomplice to rape and/or child abuse.

    I'm in no way defending child abusers or rapists here. I think that behavior is reprehensible and one of the most horrific crimes that you can perpetrate against a single human being, and someone that dangerous to a child needs to be locked where they can't hurt any other kids. But see, that's what I mean by tragic. The orientation or paraphilia or whatever the correct term is a constant lure towards evil, but that doesn't make the person a bad person. Proclivity towards violence does not make someone violent, as I can personally attest, and the idea of thoughtcrime for anything makes me squirm inside. And honestly, if resources were more available to help people struggling with intrinsic condemned qualities like pedophilia, perhaps we could cut down the numbers on child abuse. But the gut reaction, the hatred is so strong I don't see that happening. Not In My Backyard is in full effect with this sort of thing. I admit that my own immediate reaction is one of revulsion and fear.
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    Am I going crazy or did the gender icons under our avatars get a lot smaller recently?
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    Huh. I think they used to have a 3-d effect, but now they're just flat?
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    Whee!

    So, I'm more than a little tipsy right now. Just got back from going out to a friend's birthay party. I... may... have confessed to her that I kinda fancy her, despite her having a boyfriend. I blame the alcohol. On the plus side, she doesn't have a probhlem with it, and said that my confession hasn't changed the way she feels about me (as a friend) at all, so I've got that going for me, which is nice. On the minus side, y'know, boyfrined. Ho hum.

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    But seriously speaking -- is body dysphoria + societal discomfort not a perfectly normal reason to transition?

    And Heliomance: At least you have that out of the way now?

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    But seriously speaking -- is body dysphoria + societal discomfort not a perfectly normal reason to transition?
    It is, you have every right to transition because of it, and your mother sounds like a [probably well-meaning] idiot.
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    Quote Originally Posted by byzantineblue View Post
    But seriously speaking -- is body dysphoria + societal discomfort not a perfectly normal reason to transition?

    And Heliomance: At least you have that out of the way now?
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    i'm so tired of people telling me that i can't use labels i'm comfortable with because they "aren't correct"/"are dehumanizing" (it's not even bad, it's just used in a dry sense ffs), and that i'm not allowed to reclaim them and make them good ones to use because i don't have the proper body parts, and then acting like that's any different than telling a binary trans person they can't use their chosen pronouns because not having the right genitals makes them completely incapable of understanding.
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    But seriously speaking -- is body dysphoria + societal discomfort not a perfectly normal reason to transition?
    It's the reason basically everyone gives. So yes.
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    i'm so tired of people telling me that i can't use labels i'm comfortable with because they "aren't correct"/"are dehumanizing" (it's not even bad, it's just used in a dry sense ffs), and that i'm not allowed to reclaim them and make them good ones to use because i don't have the proper body parts, and then acting like that's any different than telling a binary trans person they can't use their chosen pronouns because not having the right genitals makes them completely incapable of understanding.
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    I had many fun times trying to convince the people on this forum that not extending the same rights to me as everyone else was in fact more dehumanising than using a pronoun that they didn't like.

    I almost flipped when someone mentioned that they'd refuse to associate with someone who insisted on using that pronoun.

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    Are there any particularly odious side effects to HRT?

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    Are there any particularly odious side effects to HRT?
    Some are possible. I get migraines from them for example.

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    Pardon me but does anybody know the word for when women after they were married would be removed from the public eye sort of. Their legal identity in a way absorbed. So Ms. Soandso would then be recorded as Mrs. Husbands Name. And property would enter the husbands possession maybe? I think I heard a term for it once and I wanted to use it in a paper on Frankenstein I am writing for a literature class.
    Not sure if you still need it, but I believe the term (at least in British-descended common law) is "coverture".
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    [QUOTE=Delusion;18282509]Some are possible. I get migraines from them for example.

    That doesn't sound that bad. I meant like major life-threatening scary health issues

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    Quote Originally Posted by byzantineblue View Post
    That doesn't sound that bad. I meant like major life-threatening scary health issues
    Migraines suck butt. They're pretty bad.

    Otherwise, well, hormones are things that the human body produces normally. Unless you get the dosage way off it shouldn't be life-threatening. But we can't give medical advice on this forum and anyway all we use spironolactone for in my profession are its diuretic and antihypertensive effects so you should really go talk to an endocrinologist.
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    That doesn't sound that bad. I meant like major life-threatening scary health issues
    Yes. Synthetic testosterone has been linked to heart attack, stroke, death, and other serious medical issues that I can't think of right now. There's ads on TV notifying people that have been on testosterone and suffered medical issues that they may be entitled to compensation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by byzantineblue View Post
    But seriously speaking -- is body dysphoria + societal discomfort not a perfectly normal reason to transition?

    And Heliomance: At least you have that out of the way now?
    Yes. Transition is your right, even if you only felt like it and didn't have either of those problems. As for health problems, male to female transition shouldn't have any, IIRC (please ask somebody who knows for certain). It's only transmen that have to deal with the scariness of testosterone being a medical threat.

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    So today I've had the pleasure of dealing with people who think if transgender people are permitted to use the bathroom of their own gender, it will result in rampant sexual harassment, and when I spoke up against it, I was compared to a white supremacist and told that there's absolutely no barrier to me or any other transgender person being happy and that in fact my suffering shouldn't take precedence over their suffering, by which I mean the fact that they have to 'accept' me.

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