lessons from a bit of surfing https://twitter.com/MalesInDisguise
1. 'HRT' (taking estrogen) is a scam. Years on it, no change whatsoever in appearance. Why would you prefer your delusions to wanting to get value for money? Is someone else paying for it?
2. 'HRT' (chemical castration) is also a scam. There are people asking how they can overcome erectile dysfunction while taking drugs that cause it. How does that happen? No medical professionals willing to get fired just for making sure that the deluded understand what they're actually ingesting.
3. I understand Turd Flinging Monkey's transgender support now, beyond his expressed (very cynical) reasons: trannies are a population of near-insane incels that absolutely, desperately, need his advice. For one, a very realistic doll is a lot cheaper than harmful and pointless drugs, and if you fuck it your monkey brain will conclude that you're in a relationship. That's sad, too, but it's a private sadness you can potentially recover from one day. You don't have to introduce yourself to people with doll-related pronouns.
4. We need children's programs, illustrated books, new fairy tales, to make it universally understood how reality-warping and insane it is to join these communities that can only exist online because they bring together super-ultra-mega-fringe aspects of people and make them seem like real communities with real people in them. It's not even that the people themselves are fringe, but what they *present* of themselves is a fringe of their own lives. The internet can let you binge 555 hours of something that looks real but is made up of a million people playing pretend, each, for only 2 seconds out of their day. A million suicidal people pretending that they're happy with their decisions.