Post is not aimed to promote self-harm, but to discuss uncomfortable and important topic in good faith (hope as civilized as possible)
If you are struggling with mental health STOP reading and LEAVE this post, this is for people who are ready to discuss touchy political subject.
Main general question 1:
At what point (if any) should assisted suicide be available specifically for trans people who cannot find peace neither as gender assigned as birth or through transitioning?
Main personal question 2: How likely I am to be approved for DIGINITAS or MAID
-Answer with
a) Never, specify why not
b) Under certain conditions, specify when and why
c) Other answer idk tell me to fuck off or something, whatever suits all is good.
You can also tell me get therapy/get a life, but i don't really care about generic answers like that
Context:
In my personal opinion,
any chronic long term condition makes you eligible.
As long you underwent through standard stuff like therapy, meds (SSRI, HRT and whatever applicable) for say
2 years
Government and even society as whole actively making it impossible to medically manage your health condition that brings such damage to your life without giving you legal option to opt out - is sadistic period.
You are prisoner of your body and law, but they say we are free.
They claim we have right to life, but what sort of life what quality of this is mere existence than actually living if some of us can't cope either by being closeted or out trans, especially being visibly/non passing.
We don't get right to die apparently, cause even if you attempt and fail you get sanctioned for who knows and you can go through even more trauma as being forced fed meds or
force detransitioned.
Say you tried repressing being trans as they want you to do as society, it is miserable you rot and you can't function life goes by.
You decided eventually that life is worth nothing and is a burden and you attempt to fix it by transitioning.
Sometimes it cures your problem,
other times it simply doesn't work HRT, surgeries etc.
nothing is helping you to relieve your physical and/or social dysphoria.
Some people are still able to cope with distractions and hobbies that are not trans related, but some do not. Dysphoria is like a depression affecting your daily functioning and outlook on life, not always treatable if HRT, surgeries or whatever else don't work as intended
Long bit, my story - you can skip and just answer questions if you don't give a damn about my testimony why I am tired of trying now.
Childhood,
As a child I always had fascination with girls what they do, how they look more than I would notice boys?
Childhood was generally bliss boy or girl was good times for me cause brain not developed yet to comprehend the world enough
Just didn't share to any of my friends or parents my secret that I so admire girls that would be cool to experience what is it to be one too. So I just get on with boy life and fantasize about girls and culture.
Teen hood on other hand
I never could make friends as a teen, as people could always sensed something different about me or strange. Rejected by boy groups, being seen as freak for trying to socialise with girls. Ape mob mentality.
Always jealous of girls, they get to do this and that and don't get beaten the shit by your peers by liking a doll, wearing that top/tights etc.
They get to have a body that I don't and I just stare at mirror and feel indifferent at best/replused at worst and fantasize how it would be to have boobs, vagina instead.
They get to go to that prom or school party dressed up whatever, if you try to do the same you get called a fag and get bullied for rest of the school or assaulted.
You try to date a girl to conform to social pressure, but it doesn't work - you just don't know how to behave to even attract one. So
you are loner without either friends or gf.
I didn't get to tell my parents about my feelings,
my parents and grandparents were Christians and openly mocked trans and gay people in front of TV.
If I felt the need to dress up as a child you do it once your mum is out, cause if she catches you oh boy belt to the ass or you get taken to church for talk.
I hide my secret to therapists or parents, but my parents take me to therapy anyway cause they clearly see this is a depressed child.
I collect my mental health diagnoses like Pokémon -
MDD, GAD as youth
Adulthood
Okay I grow up school is over. School sucks for most people right?
It is as an adult you thrive and grow, wrong.
As an adult, still loner maybe one or two friends that are as odd as you
Really though
all wanted to do was be left alone to suffer, high school fucked me up so much I preferred introverted life now staying away from people including away from family.
This was my peace and cope.
I do usual stuff try to get a job, play computer games here and there, go to gym to try to make myself feel better about body I don't like.
And..... that's it
no excitement no drive to try anything just do bare minimum and lock yourself in the room.
My relationship with parent worsens, because I can't control frustrations of being unfulfilled and they also had their own expectations I couldn't fulfill.
I try date here and there, of course it fails cause I don't know how to attract a girl
Do this two three times fail fail fail, then stop trying.
Hey, maybe you are gay? Eh... not really I don't really go out and ask guys out either.
However, I bet most of my former classmates and family suspected I was gay for failing as a dude to meet usual social expectations for men
Grandmother, sister, brother 'If you don't do that you won't attract girl, when you getting married... etc etc
I just give some basic half assed answer and move on.
Life keeps going by, I collect even more mental diagnoses by 25
BDD, schizoid tendencies and some other bullshit. fed me multiple meds to numb me down.
Do some talk therapy, but all this is just meh not reality made to make you feel happy more to numb you so you don't rope.
Transitioning
I will just keep it short cause we already have such a long post -
if you want my story so much, ask me to write a book okay?
At 25 I crack, life was bullshit I don't enjoy any of this why would I want to do this for next 50-60 years and cope with this body & constant thoughts of jealousy and being social reject
I come out to mum, yes I was still living with her at 25 cause if you are depressed looser usually you are broke to nove out too.
It doesn't go well, she starts crying and transphobia comes out - but I am numb, I am so numb I didn't care what happens next cause numb emotions was survival for 25 yrs.
She is passively aggressive for next 1-2 of my transition, tries to plot against my back tells me how I never be and so on.
As for transition itself, I am from UK so waiting lists here are like 10 years - so DIY it is.
For 1-2 years however, I was able to afford private provider so I went with them.
I am optimistic, yeah you heard from such doompost I just posted above,
I was optimistic that my life would actually improve once I get through this cause that's what I wanted since small child.
I start doing usual stuff investing money heavily to laser removal, patiently wait for HRT changes and come out to my best friend who was like wtf, but yeah sure I accept you I guess.
I do lot of reading what to expect out of HRT, talk to trans people both online and irl - which was big step cause I am introverted so don't like going out at all.
I get inspired by wonderful posts how much people life improved, beautiful transformations with smiling trans people and I am like WOW.
I exchange photos with other trans people to discuss progress, saw how even more manlier people than me actually got amazing results so let's be optimistic right?
Life going to finally improve I think just need to wait it out and keep learning what's needed to function as woman I wanted to be.
First red flag I noticed, my breasts weren't developing as fast as other trans people
3-6 months still flat as tabl;e, just puff nipple - hey you gotta be patient girl, everybody develops at different pace!
6-12 months, wait still no A cup while other people telling me they already getting to B and C cups? Hmm, I guess I just need to be patient more cause private provider says my bloods are all good so just trust me.
I got some skin softening and smell less like BO, so something is working right?
In the background,
obviously not close to passing at all 6-12 months in just some queerdo dude - but
since this dude is obviously just flamboyant gay we embrace it as society, not so much those trannies.
Everything all good 1 year is nothing keep doing your laser, keep trying some andro wardrobe and you will see results like your online and irl peers.
You still getting sired, but hey people polite to you even if they stare from other side of walkway
1 year hits obviously no a cup still and not much changed body wise, just gentle skin changes and growing your wonderful locks.
Well maybe ask your provider to change dosages OK they change we will add prog it will help you as well (red flag adding prog before tanner3)
1-2 year hey... you look different younger and your hair is lovely occasionally someone even understand you are a trans person and will 'madam' you out of politeness
those who are not so supportive will give you death stare - but hey fuck them.
Spoiler still don't pass thu
2 year...... well I see by 2 years some major changes suppose to happen like my peers are getting?
I am still getting madam and sometimes sir/they, so something must be working right?
But,
why I don't have aa tits and my face looks still manly, is HRT working to make me finally passable or not?
I drop private provider cause they expensive as hell for broke person like me
DIY then I can get dosages I need to really get results!
I also go for FFS cause you know your face is masculine so be realistic, you need it babe

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Just drop 30 000 dollars here in your life savings and fly to Argentina alone and promise your live gets better cause all those photos and posts you saw FFS will help you if HRT sucks
convinced me maybe I need surgery route to be happy and to pass.
So I go...
my mum's attitude changes dramatically she is terrified I will get BA and FFS done there. She begs me not to go, I go anyway she cries like I am going to frontlines of war.
Surgeon promised, 'Darling it will be wonderful, don't worry' - why should I not trust I saw photos of other people passing after this right. so maybe I have a chance.
Just pass over your life savings poor girl and watch, ok.
<drumroll> eh something changed, but I still see my face kinda?
Let's be positive it's just swelling once that is done it's going to be great.
And honestly let's schock you again, IT WAS GREAT - all those men that were assholes that harrased now opening doors for me, trying to carry my bags, everyone is suddenly smiling at me - not single misgendering for a year, both because out of politeness and I was actually cis to some less observant ones.
Hey so
life is going to great now that you have done this surgery right?
Well that's what I thought, but
my mum was warning me she didn't see that much change
I thought she was transphobic cause of her attitude in early years
3-4 yrs on hrt fantastic, HRT results were fucking shit - but at least surgery and work I have put into clothes, hair, voice and legal stuff will make this everything work out?
It was best as it gets truly,
time I had hope now just need to save up for srs and you will be comfortable to finally live this life
4 years 1 year post op, magic wears down you know FFS didn't really changed enough?
I start getting treated just like I did in first two years of transition stares, avoiding contact, 'hey that's a man', passive aggresion
my paranoia grows and I start to isolate again.
You can sense every stare on you, every dude thinking wtf?
Conclusion
30yo transexual, who's transition is failed and is chronic loner only cope is to hide away now in mummy's childhood bedroom cause you didn't developed either as a man or a woman properly to function in this patriarchy capitalistic hell.
Why did I bother,
why did I bother flying to other side of the world
spending all my savings on surgeries and drugs just to end up in the beginning?
All 5 years of being considered freak of nature to just reward you with default state
Now my health both physical and mental is done for,
I cry daily when I see my reflection.
If I can defeat my mirror dysphoria, people will quickly remind me they think I am a freak.
I can't be happy as a man, I can't be happy as woman cause I can't transition properly
Why the fuck do I have to carry this burden,
what you suppose to do when you tried everything and nothing is enough?
No therapy, no transition, no detransition, no repressing, no distractions NOTHING makes all of this worth it.
Please government if you won't fund further attempts at healthcare and surgeries for second, third, fifth ffs to make this bearable, won't allow me to legally function at work or in the public without being a punchbag AT LEAST fund me assisted dying at this point, please.
I don't want to carry this burden anymore and I regret putting money into FFS than into DIGINITAS, so my mum won't have to find ,my brain matter on floor one day