2 years, 8 months ago

‘If I had gone through with a gender transition, I would have committed suicide’

This is when gender ideology came onto the scene. “Maybe you are gay?” “Maybe you don’t feel sexual attraction?” “Maybe you are a man?” These “maybes” weren’t open-ended shoulder-shrugs. NHS therapy is prescribed in 8-12 weeks doses and, if you’re not “cured” by then, you’re sent to the back of the queue, antidepressants in hand, to apply for more. And so this confusion continued and intensified over several more years – in which time I shaved off my long hair, started shopping in the men’s section, and crushed my still developing breasts to my chest with bandages and “binder” bras. At the time, the adoption of each new masculine stereotype felt like a step closer to that “true”, “authentic” self my friends had idolised.

The Telegraph
Gender Committed Suicide

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