It gets said a lot here, and society is beginning to acknowledge and discuss it but I don't think society fully realizes it.

It's the fact that people do this...they are in so much pain that they do this, that they might not even suffer FOR A FEW YEARS until they realize it wasn't their authentic selves.

The problem is what's irreversible. But the fact that someone could completely alter their bodies, deny their true selves...and for it temporarily be an upgrade shows how much pain our society causes certain people, certain and men and women.

Whatever people are going through, they haven't been able to remedy without journeying outside themselves. Some of people's experiences here are that what they did they enjoyed, or it helped, or they gained perspective or some intangible psychological growth from the transition, it's just that they paid in irreversible bodily changes. Not everyone's of course that's not everyone's narrative.

But I think it's underackowledged why these patterns happen. The amount of injustice in our society, the pain in people's lives, the fact of that certain people are valued more than others is just this invisible fact of life. You can look at the detrans problem as a mental health problem--because it definitely is. It's a problem of how do you deal with people who mistook some other problem for being transgender. But it is also a matter of society causing certain groups an incredible amount of pain and there being no good way to cope with it. A certain proportion of these people attempting to fix it through transition who were actually cis.