k_dragon

Mental therapy for that has been tried, and in nearly every case the patient either transitioned afterwards or committed, not just attempted, suicide. Transition is the only treatment ever tried for trans people that's had even slight success. So if you think you have a better idea for how to get rid of my dysphoria and be able to live in peace without spending years and dozens of thousands of dollars and risking discimination, violence, and death, I am all ears.

People are against transitioning because they're uneducated and think trans people can just stop transitioning and go about with our lives so that we don't scare people by having a medical condition.

But it's NOT at best a stop gap. Scientists are already developing synthetic working wombs. While they're not doing that specifically for trans people, scientists take an existing technology and apply it to a new problem all the time. While all we'd need to apply that to trans people is a bit more research and time into a technology that's being developed, researched, and improved as we speak, you propose to develop an entirely new technology from the ground up.

Additionally, my question now is this: Why? Transition is an improving technology that already works miraculously in terms of lives saved. Why exactly is it so important to you that this treatment be developed in such a way as to have trans people live as our sex assigned at birth? Apparently a treatment that's capable of saving our lives 90% of the time isn't good enough for you, you wan't a treatment that does that YOUR way, even though you're not even affect by dysphoria. WHY? In fact, no one experiencing the condition is vouching for what you're proposing, so why should anyone listen to what you have to say on the issue? You're barging in and telling other people what they should do to their own bodies in order for their own happiness. Seriously, Butt out and mind your own goddamn business.

Yeah, lots of things are tried and failed, that doesn't mean you give up research. Imagine if medicine had stayed content with sawing limbs instead of experimenting with penicillin.

And then what happened when penicillin worked? People started fucking using it.

Guess what happened when it was discovered that medical transition could save about 90% of trans people's lives? People started using it. You're saying we should drop a solution that, while primitive, a) works, and b) is being improved with time, in favor of another path that we don't even have CLOSE to working yet, and THEN improve that one with time, which leaves all the current trans people to die while scientists dick around with something that's currently a dead end while a working and further developable solution sits unused.

You also never addressed determining a person's gender. Ambiguous phenotypes aren't a red herring, because we're having a discussion that's literally entirely about people who move from one phenotype to another.