• 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.

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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