Medical transition should be free and mandatory

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As an actual trans person, the idea of "mandatory" medical transition is sketchy as f**k. That's forced sterilization. And there's many reasons why a "real" trans person wouldn't want to medically transition, a lot of them being due to health issues, where various forms of transition could make the person unwell or even kill them. Not to mention people that don't transition so they can have children + have more options when they have children (example: top surgery prevents the ability for someone FtM to ever breastfeed). This just seems like highkey advocating for sterilizing, killing, and taking choice away from trans people, and I don't f*****g like it.

Full transition is not the final goal or ultimate solution for a lot of trans-people. People should be free to decide their path, and how long they follow it.

Many trans-people deal with depression / suicidal thoughts, not because they can't transition (either because they already did, or because they don't feel the need to), but because society still stigmatizes them.

Forcing someone to undergo a "full-transition" is just as much ignoring an individual's wishes as preventing them from transitioning. You're making the choice, not them, regardless of what THEY actually want.

Also, forcing trans-people to full-transition-or-nothing is no different than the dogmatic transition gatekeeping that doctors used to commit in the 70s and 80s, where unless you were excessively feminine and desperate to change in every way, you weren't "serious enough" about it to get approval.

Many trans-people are perfectly happy with just presenting as, and being recognized as, their preferred identity. Some want more than just presentation, and also want hormones, but not surgery. Some want surgery, but not hormones. Some want both, or all of the above. Some want something else altogether, and that's entirely up to them, and nobody else.

You can't mandate happiness.

Haven’t read all 5 pages, just sharing my reaction to the proposal:

Mandates on such highly personal matters are always wrong. Period, end of story. What is right for one person could be disastrous for another, I don’t care what lofty long term goal you think the mandate can help achieve. The whole point is supposed to be that everyone gets to be their true self, whatever that is, and even if that means they are X today, Y tomorrow, and X again next week. We should be meeting people where they are at, and not pushing them to move to another box that may or may not be right for them.

I’d much rather remove gendered pronouns from our language, make male v female more of a non issue. That can, over time, solve many of the same issues you think a mandate could.

Change, when done right, takes time. You can’t force it. The younger generation nearly across the board is far far ahead of society as a whole on this. The world will change with them as they move through adulthood. Patience.

If you force transpeople to transition who don’t want to, the suicide rates will increase.