But there is no way to justify that importance and not see that it is no where near as important to them as actual gender affirming care is to a trans person.
Sorry. I cannot parse this sentence, it’s a triple negative and I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. My apologies.
To minimize or reject the later while choosing to seek the former is outrageous.
Performative outrage perhaps. But anyone outraged at this shows they really haven’t put in the time to understand or respect trans issues. This is the difference between real allyship and just putting pronouns in your bio. The difference between simply tolerance and actual respect and understanding. If you can’t understand the difference between a trans person getting gender-affirming care and a random cis person just getting a nose job they want, well I have to say, you really don’t understand trans people at all. Being trans is not just a quirky body mod people do for fun. This stuff kills people. This is life-saving medical care. I would be dead without the healthcare I received as part of my transition. I would literally be in the ground right now. To compare that healthcare to a random 18 year old who would just prefer her boobs be a little bigger is insulting.
I know it’s tempting to ignore all nuance and just say, “everyone should get what they want. Love and rainbows. Looking at hard reality and real world limits are too difficult. I love everyone and just want everyone to be happy! #uwu” That’s lazy liberal hugboxxing. Here in the real world, the hard truth is that insurance will never be able to pay for absolutely every cosmetic treatment people want. The difference is that trans healthcare has decades of research behind it showing that it greatly reduces suicide rates and directly saves lives. When a similar body of evidence exists to support cisgender access to an otherwise cosmetic treatment, I will consider them equivalent. Until then, you’re directly hurting trans people by comparing the two.
Again, if you can show a treatment is similarly effective at preventing suicide in cis people as GAC is for trans people, I will consider them comparable. But if that isn’t the case, it’s trivializing and demeaning the life-saving care that many trans people rely on to literally keep living. It’s the difference between someone taking ozempic because they’re morbidly obese and will die if they don’t take it, and someone taking it because they would like to lose ten pounds to fit in their summer swimsuit. Would it help both people to feel better about themselves? Sure. The already skinny person will have their well-being increase slightly. But to say the two situations are remotely comparable is insulting and outrageous. Same medicine. One is life-saving medical care, while the other is cosmetic. Nuance matters and we shouldn’t take the lazy hug box approach and just say, “well I guess all the people who want this must be in the same boat!”
My point boiled down to the fact that someone cannot justify their stance that trans Healthcare isn’t necessary while thinking their cosmetic care is. That those two things are not comparable in either importance or their life-saving outcomes. Again, I’m not reducing trans gender affirming healthcare down to cosmetic care by drawing the comparison to it. The point is that there is no comparison between them beyond the superficial.
Sorry. I cannot parse this sentence, it’s a triple negative and I’m not sure what you’re trying to say. My apologies.
Performative outrage perhaps. But anyone outraged at this shows they really haven’t put in the time to understand or respect trans issues. This is the difference between real allyship and just putting pronouns in your bio. The difference between simply tolerance and actual respect and understanding. If you can’t understand the difference between a trans person getting gender-affirming care and a random cis person just getting a nose job they want, well I have to say, you really don’t understand trans people at all. Being trans is not just a quirky body mod people do for fun. This stuff kills people. This is life-saving medical care. I would be dead without the healthcare I received as part of my transition. I would literally be in the ground right now. To compare that healthcare to a random 18 year old who would just prefer her boobs be a little bigger is insulting.
I know it’s tempting to ignore all nuance and just say, “everyone should get what they want. Love and rainbows. Looking at hard reality and real world limits are too difficult. I love everyone and just want everyone to be happy! #uwu” That’s lazy liberal hugboxxing. Here in the real world, the hard truth is that insurance will never be able to pay for absolutely every cosmetic treatment people want. The difference is that trans healthcare has decades of research behind it showing that it greatly reduces suicide rates and directly saves lives. When a similar body of evidence exists to support cisgender access to an otherwise cosmetic treatment, I will consider them equivalent. Until then, you’re directly hurting trans people by comparing the two.
Again, if you can show a treatment is similarly effective at preventing suicide in cis people as GAC is for trans people, I will consider them comparable. But if that isn’t the case, it’s trivializing and demeaning the life-saving care that many trans people rely on to literally keep living. It’s the difference between someone taking ozempic because they’re morbidly obese and will die if they don’t take it, and someone taking it because they would like to lose ten pounds to fit in their summer swimsuit. Would it help both people to feel better about themselves? Sure. The already skinny person will have their well-being increase slightly. But to say the two situations are remotely comparable is insulting and outrageous. Same medicine. One is life-saving medical care, while the other is cosmetic. Nuance matters and we shouldn’t take the lazy hug box approach and just say, “well I guess all the people who want this must be in the same boat!”
My point boiled down to the fact that someone cannot justify their stance that trans Healthcare isn’t necessary while thinking their cosmetic care is. That those two things are not comparable in either importance or their life-saving outcomes. Again, I’m not reducing trans gender affirming healthcare down to cosmetic care by drawing the comparison to it. The point is that there is no comparison between them beyond the superficial.