[viamiraia]

As a trans woman who has talked with many other trans women, the majority, including me would prefer not having gone through male puberty at all. The benefits do not outweigh the gender dysphoria. We would love to go through puberty the exact same way as a cis woman, but it's not like we don't realize HRT and current methods have room for improvement.

The effects are only partially reversible, and only after tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in surgeries, hair removal, voice training, other treatments.

I understand it's a politically losing issue now, but I believe it's due to misinformation, outrage porn, and unfair application of rigor, from mostly the anti-trans side but even allies and trans folk themselves sometimes. To that end I hope this does not feel like an attack - let me know if you have any questions that you think my perspective would help.

[jart]

Look forward to the future. Superintelligence will invent better treatments for trans people. However there's not going to be any better treatments if trans becomes illegal due to the backlash caused by folks agitating for the use of the comparatively crude treatments available today on children. Trump has setup a legal regime for annihilating everyone in the medical community who's been providing trans care. You better hope there are still people around who are willing to help when the dust settles from all this political fighting.