I wish you success dear. We wouldn't have mental health issues, if the people around us weren't the lousy people they are.

I should mention, that I support cancer treatments. I have no beef with blood transfusions. I don't mind having a broken leg fixed. I had surgery on my eyes, because seeing is fun. I didn't need my tonsils. I like antibiotics. I'm glad we can do liver transplants. Bad burns don't need to be left unrepaired. And this list can go on a long while from here. Attacking a person because they would rather live in a body that agrees with them, is the height of assinine. We all know these jerks won't mind benefiting from modern medical science when life happens to them. But they feel a need to impose their hate on us for no good reason whatsoever. And the worst, they try and hide their hate behind their fascade of 'thinking of the children'. Yeah, right, I lay the blame for every child suicide at their feet. They killed them, not me. The deaths are THEIR fault.

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All the more reason why this is a mental issue. If you’re acting on or threatening su!c!dal thoughts, then you should be working with a therapist to help you work through tryout issues. You also failed to mention that the majority of people now who are getting these “gender reaffirming” surgeries, have huge amounts of regrets later on down the road. This also leads into what no one is talking about that in the majority of these cases, having that physical alteration to your body does little to do what they originally thought it was going to for them… and in fact that most of this is mental, not physical. We all have something we don’t like about our bodies but changing it just because we can, isn’t going to fix our issues about it. However, coming to terms with you get way you get and you need to come to terms with that and accept that’s just the way it is, is far more “reaffirming” than doing things to your body that are far worse for you than to not to. Your body isn’t meant to look off its parts and take unnecessary and unnatural hormones to change it and this is essentially so when there is a huge list of symptoms, side effects and potential consequences to doing so. If you were meant to be that different, you’d of been born that way and when we are reaffirmed in how we think, of course you are going to think that is the ‘only’ solution to all your issues just to change it all. Coming to terms with who you are and loving your body as it is with what you have instead of just saying “I hate this about me, but I can change it and it will be fine” when chances are, you won’t be, is the answer here. We raise our children to love themselves as they are, except when they think being different is wrong or when they have feelings of being different because of how society tells them how to feel. Embracing your you-ness with what you have is far better for your mental health than anything. When you constantly go over and obsess over what you have in a negative way, of course that’s not healthy for anyone, especially to someone who’s told they can ‘simply’ change it with these complicated things which almost always turn out to be botched in some way, one way or another. People who are born an man and want to be a women because they think they should be a woman and “feel” like a woman are just because ridiculous since while a man may never feel like “a man” whatever that even means, he will NEVER know what being a legit woman even really feels like since they are not one and will never be one no matter how much they alter themselves to try to be one. You cannot add breasts you don’t have, and alter your penis to look like a vagina, wear women’s clothes and do things you deem are ‘womanly’ things and call yourself a woman. It doesn’t work like that and all you’re doing is mocking real women in the process acting like that’s how it works. You may not like your body, but that doesn’t make you a woman. It makes you a man who doesn’t like his body and thinks altering it will answer all his issues, but it won’t. We always want what we can’t have because we think that somehow we will be happier in the having of that thing which we cannot have, and then when we end up getting it, it’s not really all we thought it was going to be. It’s not that hard to believe that people like you as well was many of the younger people today think that the only thing that will answer their problems is to just get what they want and have zero accountability as to what the consequences will be to get it. We have lost the art of acceptance and being grateful for what we do have over focusing on all the negative and dwelling on what we can have or can’t change. It becomes an obsession to them and IS in their heads. A good therapist will tell you that and help you work through your issues, not “reaffirm” the negative and unhealthy ones you have going on in your head. And if you are threatening to self harm, that proves that you need to seek PROPER medical care! And it’s no wonder how much things like this are linked to such things. There’s something not right there and I honestly don’t think someone who’s already mentally unstable should be given things or have things done to them that in turn alters their biological and physiological make up even more. Your parts sever as a legit function in your body. To remove them, changes you far greater than JUST your physical appearance and when you do so, you brain chemistry changes even more as a result of that. Take an already mentally unstable person and do things to their body to alter it even more, and you’re asking for a ticking time b0mb. It’s no wonder most of these trans people are so mentally unstable as they are, yelling and screaming at everyone and throwing tantrums when they don’t get their way and it’s because they are changing their bodies in way that aren’t meant to be experienced on top of having issues. To just give them what they think they want, but not what they need, is asking for more issues. It’s like telling a depressed person that it’s ok that they are depressed and to just stay in bed all day long if that’s how they feel or to tell someone who doesn’t like their arm that it’s ok to cut it off because that mental aspect of it being. There ‘messes them up’ more than having it, except that these are organs that serve a purpose that helps runs your whole entire system. It doesn’t do anything to actually help them and is only enabling their negative mental mindset. Surgery won’t solve your issues since your issues need to be worked on from the inside out, not the outside in. And if you have money to fly to Thailand and pay for some botched surgery out of pocket, what do you need to be approved to get it done here for? Either way, it’s not in the having it done that will solve your issues. It’s the having it because you can’t have it that makes you want it all that more. But if you are that desperate, go ahead and go to Thailand and get it done and prove me wrong because I guarantee that if you go that route, it’s not going to be all you think it will be cracked up to be especially you can afford to go get it done in some third world country where they use unethical practices and just take your money in the process. You’re just asking for complications there and I don’t think that the risks WILL outweigh the benefits there for you. Is having the risk of a botched body with life long complications and more costly surgeries to fix the problem while never really fixing your real problems or your physically botched ones actually worth it for you over that you are experiencing now?! If you say yes, then that only proves my many points here that it’s a huge mental issue. You don’t surgery. You need therapy with a good therapist who will help you fix the real reasonings as to why you feel like this in the first place. People don’t wake up one day and what to lop off body parts. That’s just not a normal or healthy thing to want to do and I’m willing to bet that it has something to do with childhood trauma somewhere down the line that triggered it since that isn’t more often than not the things that cause mental issues, even if it’s on some sort of subconscious level we blocked out. But children with normal and healthy upbringings don’t have the need to slip to some mental issues that causes them to hate their bodies and want to commit acts of self harm. That’s not ok and it’s not normal and if it’s a mental issue, only fixing it and working through it mentally will cause you to get through it. You have a whole lot of shadow work to contend with. I suggest you start there before whiny that surgery is the ONLY thing REQUIRED to fix you. It’s not. And before you think otherwise, try researching how many people are still depressed after the novelty of their ‘new body’ actually wears off. Even after their sutures of their surgeries heal getting their new bodies they really didn’t choose anyways, will never be the same as being a real wo/man. It’s all in your head. You’re banking on a whole lot of maybes to have it work out in your favor anyways, and that’s even if you actually turn out the way you’re ‘supposed to’ assuming that having a botched vagina and fake breasts is what it takes to even actually be a woman. It’s not. Idk what you’re hoping to feel out of getting your surgery, but it will never truly be being what you think it will no matter how much you convince yourself that you are. And with as much effort as you put into pushing this, you could instead be dumping it into a more positive outlet of having a shift in perspective on acceptance of who and what you are and what you are actually given at birth-they way you are meant to be. Your problem isn’t that you can have your surgery, but that you think you even need it in the first place to be whole. You don’t. Thats not a “well you just don’t understand how gender dysphoria works!” problem. It’s a human issue of how the world really works over what and how you think it works issues, again, something you need to figure out for yourself, just like the rest of us have to.

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