>>6586
If you want to disbelieve the science behind hormones, you can. But hormones do affect the brain. I'm on hormones right now. I've only been on the 2.5 months and my brain is different. The way I handle my day to day is different, and my body is already changing. I feel loads better than I did 2.5 months ago. My suicidal tendencies have ground to a halt and I'm actually enjoying life.

What do we want? Not to be treated like shit. Not to be harassed, raped, killed, or fired. Once transition has gotten far enough underway, we can pass. You'd never know we were born a different gender...if we're lucky enough to afford transition and if we're lucky enough to start early. Lucky. That's the key word.

You might not get the dysphoria, and I can understand that. If you did, you would be trans.

Okay...this might be a shitty example but, it might work. This is on a far lower scale, but it might put things in perspective. Would you fire someone for piercing their ears and bleaching their hair blonde? Let's say you don't like blondes. Would you go out of your way to make a stranger's life miserable because they decided to express themselves with pierced ears and bleached hair? Typically, no, even if for some reason you don't agree. And if you did most people would think you're a dick.

People might not agree or understand. Fine. We just don't want them to be dicks about it and go out of their way to ruin our lives because they think it's weird.

But people are dicks to us, which is why we want representation and legal protection, because we don't like being hurt for no good reason.