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Let me paint a far bigger picture... if you have time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1eWIshUzr8
That's an adult... with little to no support from the NHS.
In the UK, most trans people are actually DIY... they literally will do it themselves, because the Gender Identity Clinics have either been closed, or underfunded to the point that there are 19 year waiting lists... I know, because I'm on one.
There is no access to support via the GP, that's a referral... to a GIC, potentially in a different city, wherein you will go on a waiting list if ever you're even acknowledged.
So most trans people, still talking about adults here, have to DIY.
Let's look at what DIY is:
I kid you not... the majority of trans people are ordering raw drugs over the internet in a form that they can obtain, and basically cooking this stuff up themselves if they need to, and then self-administering injections, tablets, gels, patches.
Whilst also doing the mental health thing, without support, and crowdfunding for hair removal, top surgery, or whatever is applicable.
For the transmasc you need Testosterone, which thanks to sports doping is a controlled substance, so the transmasc take even bigger risks.
Then from doing all of this you have to monitor your blood levels to keep safe...
So trans people, cooking up their meds, discreetly and privately seeking surgery and crowdfunding the money (#mutualaid), and striving to cope with degrading mental health and a lack of counselling/therapy and as a result no medication for depression and mental health things... also have to be endocrinologists and to understand how to navigate the risks involved.
Oh... and transwomen are women... what does that mean? It means a transwoman can get breast cancer, except the NHS won't recognise the person as a woman and screen them for breast cancer because their record says their male and they haven't got a Gender Recognition Certificate... which they can't get because they're on a GIC waiting list that perpetually is lengthened. Similar thing works for transmasc, they too won't receive the correct health care.
The result is that in the UK, still talking about adults, it is effectively a full and complete removal of all health care and support... despite paying full taxes, nothing being illegal, and all the things above that I've mentioned being available to the rest of the population so long as they do not have a "gender dysphoria".
And yet... not one of these people will choose not to transition, just as not one gay or lesbian person was suddenly not gay or lesbian just because it was criminalised, couldn't be taught, etc.
And that... is just the adults.
For the trans youth, I'm in a Discord of hundreds of trans parents, and you can absolutely be sure that every one of them will go to jail supporting their children, you cannot comprehend the horror that is happening to trans youth and their families in this country, right now, due to the policies the Tories bought in as part of their culture war.
Labour has blood on their hands for every day that the ban is in place. The stories I read from elsewhere in the community are horrifying and deeply upsetting. And everyone is so frightened, so afraid, so scared to be visible, daren't write to an MP or a newspaper, this is in the UK... WTF is wrong with people, just let people be, it's just body autonomy, let people decide for themselves and deny them nothing for their choice.
The anger is so very real.
People are literally medicating themselves, excluded from health care, and committing suicide. The most vulnerable people.
It's not even a debatable topic IMHO... anyone who wants this for anyone else needs to seriously look in the mirror and consider who they are.