• 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    I have no idea what it’s like to have gender dysphoria, but I’d imagine they’d just not come out. But idk how that works, or if they’re willing to get bullied by like every Russian ever.

    • セリャスト@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      It can affect everyone differently but not coming out and getting things done can lead to terrible mental health and depression, leading to suicide. Transitionning is the only way we know to supress those symptoms.

      • sickpusy@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        That isn’t entirely true. Transitioning is very recent idea. Being trans and transitioning is also intimately tied to pharma capital complex.

        There were many ways of being queer and trans which have been erased over time. Simply consider the native American stuff and also Indian motions of hijra.

        Though not this precise point a good text to read : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testo_Junkie

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 year ago

      For the record, I tried not coming out for about 25 years and it wrecked my mental health and increased my depression. :(