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[–] DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Trans people just need to be loved and accepted like everyone else but unfortunately a lot of people really suck.

Point of order. Trans people do not just need to be loved and accepted. Sometimes when this discussion point comes up it's under the context that if everyone was playing ball with pronouns and being nice then medical transition would be unnecessary. That is not the case.

While it's true that one of the effects of medical transition means that strangers are more likely to read and not misgender you - being trans the feedback system isn't dependent on outside observers. What a lot of people seem to think is that gender as understood by cis people, as a largely performative construct, is by and large not how trans people interact with gender.

I personally wish we would stop looking at trans healthcare from the sour perspective of needing to justify itself being a worthy endeavor or not strictly on the basis of suicide rates as though if something is not provably strictly lifesaving in every case it isn't worthy.