Nicholas (imported) wrote: Tue Aug 01, 2023 9:02 pm
How young do you guys think kids should be able to transition medically/surgically?
Now this is a very good question. I have spent hours and days and weeks and months thinking about it. And so far it seems, there is no good solution. The answer lies in the brain!
First, my personal observation tells me that if transition is allowed without consultation for teens or preteens at first request we might end up in a problem later. quite a lot of people who have transitioned realize after transition that transition was not the right solution. I have been watching many transyoutubers since their teens. I have seen their suffering from dysphoria which is especially difficult to see how kids suffer under dysphoria. For most transition has been the life saving solution when they finally get it. But then, there was one f to m transyoutuber who after transition 4y later decided for detransition. She said that she is not entirely happy in female body either, but it felt better than male body and testosterone. Now she is a happy mother of a small boy.
So go get, what is right!
Recently, in last 10 years I have observed great surge in f to m teens. Me personally, I know them all. For some strange reason, I haven't met personally any m to f teen yet. The question is again, why this kind of dysphoria spreads or is more visible among young females? This question need some answers. None of them have fully transitioned yet, nor have plans for real transition. Despite some of them are well past 18.
Why I haven't seen m to f teens yet? It might be that these people are more hidden. As society does not react much on girls wearing boy clothes. Just my empiric observations.
In my case, I became aware of my homosexual part right before puberty, but I thought that it was just a "phase" like it was written in some sex educational books I had access to. But I never wanted or desired to be a MAN. Which for me meant to have large genitals, hairy body, be manly and wear manly clothes. I hated suits, ties, hats, men coats. When puberty started, I really hated changes, especially getting hair on my body. I remember that I searched ways to stop my puberty at 13. And since then I allways dreamt about getting some disease that would destroy my testicles. But you know, I still hoped that I was in a "phase", so I floated along with puberty as it happened. At around 15 the desire to get rid of my balls grew so bad that I started to abuse them. I invented all kind of ways to do that. Sex drive was a constant nuisance for me. I had even wetdreams how my balls came off for some strange reason and put them in the freezer, in the case I needed them later
So I think that if I had all the information and experience I have now, and someone supportive around, I would have transitioned to eunuch right then without hesitation. But I was in illusion that I was in some sort of "phase" and hoped to turn "normal" in all aspects.
So, there is a danger that you decide to transition under influence of successfully transitioned friends or youtubers, while your problem lies elsewhere. And there is a danger that you might hold back your transition thinking that you are in some sort of phase and you can be "normal".
As much as I have read about brain function. Our higher brain function (neocortex) is capable supress our more lower or ancient brain functions by quite remarkable degrees. That is why brain must be studied first, before any transition, to find out wether gender dysphoria is real and stems from lower brain functions (perceived gender is real) or it stems from neocortex (source of detransitions). In first case transition must be started right away without hesitation. Latter case other ways to solve gender problem must be seeked.
I don't know it that makes sense, but this is what I think about transition age.