As you may know, some anti-trans writers discuss their own experiences of dysphoria, and their own solutions. I've read a few from feminist writers, bloggers, etc. because some of their other perspectives can be relevant. I haven't read any by traditionalist/patriarchal writers, bloggers, etc.
Anyway, from here, it looks like most of them are describing combinations of:
(a) Body-image issues from living in this society.
(b) Sex-role-stereotype issues. I'm somewhat butch of center, and had to deal with this during gatekeeping.
And apparently:
(c) Hormonal issues due to cyclic hormonal variations going too far, or due to female-typical hormone levels and an intergender limbic system, or from intermediate hormone levels and a female limbic system...
But hypothetically, let's suppose:
(d) Hormonal issues due to female-typical hormone levels and a male brain, like with pre-transition trans men.
So hypothetically, if they were trans men, and they have become don't-call-me-cis womyn, does that make them male-to-female? And hypothetically, would these techniques help cis men undergoing treatment for prostate cancer, or undergoing some of the stories here?
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My own blunt opinion
We must each follow our own path, it is ours and can not be taken by another. I follow my own path.
There was something wrong when I was born. They thought they fixed it.
I was raised by a distant, hard working mother, and an abusive, stepfather that had untreated PTSD from WWII. Being a very effeminate child, he beat me constantly, trying to make me more masculine, and the result that I grew up hating men and hating that I was one. My brothers were abusive asses also
My whole life I had the sense that I was playing a role and not being me. I was never masculine enough for my own wife of 39 years, and that played out in hurtful ways. In the mid 80s I was diagnosed with GID. (Beginning in the 70s and growing all the time, really virulent feminism came on the scene and as they gained power, they emasculated men when they could.) I believe this GID diagnosis to be across the line and that with sufficient counseling and a divorce, I could have been a happy if somewhat effeminate man for the rest of my life.
Over the years, I had more counsel that I should be living as a woman until in 2004, that counseling and copious amounts of psych medications, led me to believe they were right and early in 2005 I began to live as a woman. This led to SRS surgery in 2007. This year, I have been successfully living as a woman for 12 years, and must say that in many ways I find a woman's life much easier than that of a man. Still, my life as a woman is restrictive and I have begun to explore ways to live as a man so that I can do the things that I want to; mainly solitary camping and wilderness outings. I live in a place where I can travel less than a day and find a place where I will see no one for two or three days. These days, the 17th chapter of "Deception of Choice" is a snapshot of my life.
In retrospect, and not to be repetitive, I believe that the whole MtF transition thing to be driven by man hating lesbians and prescription drug lords who aim to make a bundle off selling their mind altering drugs.
Having said all that, I had a massive nervous breakdown in 2002 and was on drugs that made me extremely suggestible; this told to me by two different doctors. I ended up losing my job, family, friends and church and any possibility of ever working as a Christian Pastor.
Now I support each person's right to choose their own path, but I will never recommend that anyone change genders. In the future, I hope the nature of human culture will change such that we may each simply live as who we are without drugs, counseling, or surgery. In Southern Iraq, there used to live the Mandeans and that is what they did. Unfortunately for them, they had the temerity to live on top of massive oil deposits and Saddam exterminated them as much as he could, though there are remnants in Iran, and other places in the world.
We must each follow our own path, it is ours and can not be taken by another. I follow my own path.
I don't think I ever was or
I don't think I ever was or ever could have been a man. Transition was right for me. I think similar techniques could help people who aren't trans, and are dealing with different kinds of dysphoria, and those of us who are trans, as a supplement rather than a long-term alternative to transition.
I don't really think these would be a solution for some of the cis characters, usually cis men, transitioned against their will in some of these stories...
I really just think these could be an interesting plot point.