trans kids do deserve access to healthcare actually.

I know there’s a lot of discourse around whether transgender minors should or should not get access to tesosterone, surgeries, and the general right to transition. So, as a transgender teenager, I want to talk about it. 

I absolutely think that people such as myself should get access to healthcare. It’s disgusting that we have to wait until 16 to get HRT, the long waiting lists are disgusting. We deserve our healthcare now. I’m getting my dad to buy me tesosterone and estrogen blockers right now, even though I’m not of age. Do you know why? Because I’m a teenager with gender dysphoria. Someone who deserves care, regardless of their age. 

Now. I’m not just talking about anyone who says they might be a boy or girl, or anything like that. I’m specifically talking on people who have gender dysphoria. Now, people with non-conforming genders (non-binary, demigenders, under the trans umbrella) are valid. I see transgenderism as a spectrum with transsexualism as the ends of the spectrum, almost. The most ‘severe’ way to be transgender, I guess. The extremes. I am talking about transsexuals when I say this, not because I think that others are invalid, but because a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria is important. If we say that you can be transgender without dysphoria or even incogruence is basically saying that anyone can just.. be transgender. As a choice.

Which it, obviously, isn’t. I am not transgender because it’s fun. I’m transgender because I am a transsexual. I am a male born in a female body. I deserve HEALTHCARE. Anyone can socially transition and I do hope that people get the care they need, but you don’t just get onto tesosterone for fun. We need an actual argument to get the rights we deserve, and that argument is the very real gender dysphoria that many transsexuals feel. I’m pretty sure some non-binary people feel gender dysphoria too. (By the way, I’m not ‘transmedicalist’. While I do technically agree with some of their values, I don’t like the language transmedicalists use, their hatred towards other queers, their lack of acknowledgement of their female body, and things like that). 

I deserve care because I have gender dysphoria. That’s the important thing; I’ve known people who were genderqueer as a phase, or were never fully transsexual like myself. I don’t give a fuck if you identify as a xe/xir genderfluid rabbit, that’s your gender and you’re valid. But it’s these people I think most people who talk against gender affirming care are thinking about. If these people feel GENDER DYSPHORIA, regardless of their pronouns or how cringe their bag looks, they should get it. But a lot of these people shouldn’t be in the conversation anyways because they’re not transsexual. They’re just.. non-conforming. I might be explaining this badly.

The non-binary in my class who probably doesn’t even want HRT is who cisgenders think we’re talking about. People with gender dysphoria are the actual people we’re talking about. The non-binary person is valid, but they’re not who we’re talking about because they have gender dysphoria. We need to make that distinction I think. Regardless of gender, regardless of what a kid identifies as, they deserve healthcare if they actually have gender dysphoria. 

Sorry if I repeated myself a lot there. 

For me personally, as a 14 year old trans boy, I do not give a shit whether someone is 10, 12, or any other age. I know how it feels to see your hips in a reflection and get dysphoric. I know how it feels to feel your chest while trying to sleep and then not being able to lay comfortably. I know how torturing it is to have to sit in a body that’s raping you with chemicals while everyone aroynd you is arguing on whether or not you deserve the right to a new damn name. I don’t care if your kid is 5 and showing signs of gender dysphoria, the least we can give children like myself is some hormone blockers! I will not allow people to act like my rights and my dysphoria is something THEY can argue over as if I am not the one in the actual body! I deserve my rights, and I deserve them regardless of my age!

TLDR: people with gender dysphoria deserve HRT and I don’t give a fuck about their age. People with medical problems deserve adequate care. 

edit: I overcomplicated this but ykwim