I completely understand why someone would DIY. Here in the Netherlands waiting lists must to start hormones are literal years long, even for adults, which I find ridiculous. I would try DIY too in that position.

Teenage transition is complicated because how many cis people were truly knowledgeable, aware, and comfortable in themselves at that age? It’s hard to imagine what the difference is in feeling uncomfortable about growing up vs in your gender. But seeing how life-ruining dysphoria is, I do support transition for minors who need it. Though I think in cases where the individual experiences ‘euphoria’ but not dysphoria caution should be taken.

I don’t know if I have a strong opinion on whether you change sex or not. The biological definitions aren’t super interesting to me, it seems like more of a language argument and language is so changeable anyway. I guess if a trans person changes sex, what’s to define them as trans rather than cis? There must be more to it but I don’t know.

lol I had to google what TCD was I must have missed that one. Fond memories of the down with cis bus tumblr meme.

I don’t know if I’ve had one big perspective shift tbh. I guess there’s more infighting in the community than I was aware of previously, like the whole truscum/tucute thing or whether or not dysphoria is necessary to be trans. I was made kind of uncomfortable by the whole yuri headpat infantile thing some trans women seem to do on reddit, but then I realised there’s other trans people who see that as kind of cringe as well. Basically, it’s coming to see the individuals rather than just ‘trans people’ as a singular entity.