My Syringes came in via mail today and so I did my first injection right away. Since Im doing Monotherapy I started with 5mg to see where it leads me. This was also the first time injecting myself with anything. It was kinda scary, but next time it will be way easier.
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Gender dysphoria is actually life threatening, though. Kinda hard to explain, but please have some empathy for us, it’s incredibly difficult to be forced to life someone else’s life. Nothing is your own.
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Lack of gender affirming care for gender dysphoria has been shown to lead to significantly increased risk of suicide. If you’re unaware, suicide is deadly, so yes, it is life threatening. Over 40% of transgender adults in the US have attempted suicide in their life. Transitioning, and specifically implementing gender affirming care like hormone replacement therapy, has been shown to significantly decrease the risk of suicide. So yes, HRT is a life saving treatment.
As someone with chronic health issues that I’ve been hospitalized for multiple times that would also certainly qualify as “life threatening”, I am in no way “insulted” by gender dysphoria being called life threatening. In fact, now that I am properly medicated for my health issues, I’d say gender dysphoria is the second most deadly thing in my life. It’s only usurped by Borderline Personality Disorder (which cannot be treated with medication), which has a completed suicide rate of 10%, and up to 85% of people with BPD are estimated to attempt at some point in their life.
Please stop attempting to minimize and illegitimize our problems. The only thing “insulting” happening in these comments is your fear mongering and blatant dismissal of trans issues.
EDIT: This released a few minutes after I commented, and I found it to be incredibly topical to this comment: Hormone replacement therapy lowers suicidality by nearly 70% among transgender youth
It’s not a thing that you find out you have and then you’re dead in two days, certainly not. But before I started taking hormones, I had suicidal ideation every day. When I got the right hormones in me, the thoughts just weren’t there any more. Just like that. And quite frankly it’s a miracle that I didn’t act on those thoughts. In that sense it is life threatening, very actively. And I don’t know why the thoughts went away or why they were there to begin with, but it’s a common experience.