I prefer some variation of "The best time to do it was yesterday, the second best time to do it is today"
Which is to say, I don't perceive that my late in life transition happened when it "meant" to. It happened when it could. And I'm so glad it happened at all! But if transphobia hadn't have gripped the world so hard, it also wouldn't have been as late as it was.
I mean, agreed on all points, but sometimes I get really sad about how late in life I'm transitioning and I like to imagine gandalf comforting me about it.
I remember in 2004? wishing I could do what this German girl was doing, as it was all over the global news. Sadly by the time it became politically/medically possible I was too busy working and surviving to even think about it.
Iโm so glad trans kids today get to go through it earlier and are informed/supported. I now this one little kid since they were three and Iโm so happy/envious.
Well, if by blind luck they have supportive parents, sure. My parents intentionally kept me ignorant of the existence of HRT/puberty blockers until my late teens (I didn't learn it from them, I mean)
Hateful families are the elephant in the room for queer youth. The defensive approach that dominates the discourse in the US (and so spreads to the rest of western countries) that is all but "let the parents and only the parents decide about their kids' care" sacrifices those of us with hateful and unsupportive families. Trans youth will never thrive as long as minors keep being considered their parents' property.
I don't love this meme.
I prefer some variation of "The best time to do it was yesterday, the second best time to do it is today"
Which is to say, I don't perceive that my late in life transition happened when it "meant" to. It happened when it could. And I'm so glad it happened at all! But if transphobia hadn't have gripped the world so hard, it also wouldn't have been as late as it was.
I mean, agreed on all points, but sometimes I get really sad about how late in life I'm transitioning and I like to imagine gandalf comforting me about it.
I look at this meme every time I get sad that I didn't transition earlier
Damn right, never too late, but my brainworms tells me it would have been better sooner :3
I remember in 2004? wishing I could do what this German girl was doing, as it was all over the global news. Sadly by the time it became politically/medically possible I was too busy working and surviving to even think about it.
Iโm so glad trans kids today get to go through it earlier and are informed/supported. I now this one little kid since they were three and Iโm so happy/envious.
Well, if by blind luck they have supportive parents, sure. My parents intentionally kept me ignorant of the existence of HRT/puberty blockers until my late teens (I didn't learn it from them, I mean)
Hateful families are the elephant in the room for queer youth. The defensive approach that dominates the discourse in the US (and so spreads to the rest of western countries) that is all but "let the parents and only the parents decide about their kids' care" sacrifices those of us with hateful and unsupportive families. Trans youth will never thrive as long as minors keep being considered their parents' property.