I'm assuming this is aimed at me. If so, you didn't understand what I was saying at all. I'm not saying not to give a shit about other people, I'm saying not to give the state mandate to prevent people from hurting themselves, because in doing that it will inevitably lead to giving the state mandate to hurt people.
Also, the picture is inaccurate, I don't have hair.
I think a lot of people here misunderstood Somchai original post, and I feel like I know (partly) where his reasoning might come from. He lived in the same country as me at one point, and the way trannies are treated is very different from the west. Where it is very, very infested by troons, but they're NOT state sanctioned, they're not backed up by medical institution as 'the way' to cure dysphoria. There's no legitimacy to troons. There's no legal fiction of 'sex marker' change, and no one believes that troons are really the gender they want to be and they don't even believe it themselves. So while private clinics that offer transition surgeries exist and there isn't so much regulation on that, there's no institutional pressure of 'truth' that lead people to troon out other than society's gender role, the view on homosexuality, and the existing subculture here. (troons in that country are nearly all 'HSTS')
While I see that medical transition itself as a fucked up procedures and it should never happened in the first place, and that my country (and the one Somchai used to live in) still has got a harmful culture that incentivises gay people to get themselves mutilated....
and it's also a third world shithole - Your reality is still not actively being supplanted by abstract concepts of virtue or the credential of faux-science - that you need a correct way to see the world, and anything else is a wrongthink.
I don't know how to word it prercisely, but I found that developed countries, especially the Protestant ones seem to have a very rigid way of viewing the world. You need to fit into a certain category, certain identity. And the obsession of moral purity and that the institution should 'become' part of everyone is extremely disturbing to me at least. The morality is like a machine that runs on algorithm of a concept of right and wrong but couldn't adapt to chaotic and difficult situation of life. A smiley mask over an authority that couldn't feel anything, trying to create utopia where everyone is only 'safe and happy'.. but who defines these words, who is the arbiter of what is safe and what is harm? In fact, you could say that trans HRT and surgeries are thought by TRA as a treatment, a relieve for people with dysphoria.. and this is their way of harm reduction. And withholding these procedures to them is horrid. (I disagree with that, obviously)
It's not 'mind your own biz and let people harm themselves', it's nothing like that. But more of a worry that in attempt to 'save everyone' and make the world pure... you can end up becoming the very thing you hate.
But I wouldn't mind if trans procedures are outlawed. But I also wouldn't mind if it's simply left to be just a back-alley cosmetic body modifications, where none of the psychologists, state, official institution think that it has any legitimacy. I hope legal gender change is rolled out too, all you can be is a man who got a dick chopped off and your driver license shouldn't be lying. I found the issue regarding trans issue to be legitimatisation of these procedures, and the way the system is actively luring people into it - and actively preventing therapy to actually make people accepting their body to occur.
