Erin in the morning wrote an article that feel I need to speak on. Pornography is not why I came out of the closet as trans. After 30 some odd years I finally live in a safe place where I can look back on why I was pushed back into the closet and dismantle the trauma from it. My husband and my son and my in-laws have proven to be the most supportive and accepting people I have ever encountered in my entire life. I came out 4 years ago to my husband first and then to my son. /1
I am a trans man that is gender fluid in identity. Sometimes I feel feminine. Sometimes I feel masculine but at the core of it all I am a man in the wrong body. It's taking my mother-in-law about 3 years to really embrace that and I'm proud of the progress she's made to accept me. There are people here that don't want me to live as I am. My sister-in-law's boyfriend, for instance, has made it very clear that he's a bigot and very ill-informed. /2
In the Cas report, pour some drastic assumptions given guesses that were not even supported in research about what gives the idea to transmen and women that they are trans. I'm living proof that it's not porn. I'm living proof that it's not perversion. I loathed who I, the body that I live in, and I still struggle with dysphoria a day-to-day basis. Don't believe everything you see in those reports, look the research. /3 https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/opinion-no-dr-cass-porn-will-not
In all the research that's been done, You have the proof. Transgender care and surgeries do in fact improve the lives of many, there is less than 1% margin that are dissatisfied with their treatments, even less that detransition. Is there even a single study that proves this large of a margin of people being happy with who they are after their treatments? It's unprecedented but many of us that come out and ask for help to transition are doing it because we finally feel safe to talk about it. 4/4
@PaganMother Thank you for this thread 🤗
I still struggle....
@PurpleDragon It's okay purple. I understand where you're coming from. Right now just living in America is hard. A lot of people say moving to a safe state is the answer, but the real answer lies in the hands of politicians. It's getting our voices heard our experiences understood that changes those hands decisions.