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- 10 de Sep, 2021
It's an open question. My answer is 'no'. I've known a few trans people socially over the years, but none could be described as happy in the conventional sense. None, too, are functioning members of society in the conventional sense of supporting themselves through work, having romantic relationships, owning property, driving cars and so on. All seem to be fundamentally unhappy in one way or other. They have difficulties with employment, their relationships fail immediately prior to or post transition and they tend to be very bitter in their general views of the world. A couple of the MTFs have dark pasts, too, vis a vis domestic violence and worse. I've not had any real dealings with FTMs, as a side note. I've met a couple, but they weren't really serious enough about it to progress beyond breast binding and dressing up as 15 year old skateboarders. They were still butch lesbians at heart, so don't really count; much nicer than any MTF though!
Forgetting lolcows for a minute, is there such thing as a trans anti-cow? A well adjusted, self supporting transsexual who doesn't spend his or her time railing against the world and merely exists at peace within it. Such a person ought to be a role model, but where is he or she? The only person I've met who was in any way normal was an MTF who didn't pass in any way, but had a professional job and owned a house. Amusingly, and rather in support of this point, he later went back to living as a man. He finally accepted that the whole business of trying to be a woman was folly.
The bigger question, then, is one of medical ethics. If there are no real examples of people living successful lives post transition, does the whole process go against the Hippocratic principle of doing no harm?
Forgetting lolcows for a minute, is there such thing as a trans anti-cow? A well adjusted, self supporting transsexual who doesn't spend his or her time railing against the world and merely exists at peace within it. Such a person ought to be a role model, but where is he or she? The only person I've met who was in any way normal was an MTF who didn't pass in any way, but had a professional job and owned a house. Amusingly, and rather in support of this point, he later went back to living as a man. He finally accepted that the whole business of trying to be a woman was folly.
The bigger question, then, is one of medical ethics. If there are no real examples of people living successful lives post transition, does the whole process go against the Hippocratic principle of doing no harm?
