The 2 biggest problems right now with transmaxxing

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In short the big problems i have been unable to find a good solution to are

0. Transphobic political policies
1. HRT causing at least temporary infertility

When i started this subreddit in 2019 i did not anticipate the very aggressive anti-trans campaign we now see in the US, back then things seemed to go in the right direction.
While there are ways to mitigate transphobia from individual citiziens (mainly by not letting them know you are transgender) those people will still be able to vote for transphobic policies in a democracy. In a democracy people who haven't read a single scientific study in their life will have equal say about medical policy as someone who has ready every single one and understands the data well.

In a lot of areas this has been the only viable path for medical transition has been DIY HRT but if the government is aggressive enough with their anti-trans policies not even that is going to be a viable path going forward.

Of course one option can be to simply leave where you live for somewhere better but that is easier said than done and even then it might not actually keep you safe. The US is by far the most powerful country on earth and they can easily invade other countries or do strikes knowing that they will not face any real consequences from that since it would be suicidal for any other country to go to war against them.

Right now there is a lot of political uncertainly in the US. I don't think Donald Trump personally has anything against trans people but he will be surrounded by people who are against them and Trump has a history of being easily swayed by people around him (part of the reason why republicans politicians tend to like him).

 

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What went wrong?
I do believe, looking back, that gender identity politics was a massive blunder.

Pushing "you are a woman if you identify as such" was never a good idea since it was blatantly nonsensical. I do think selling medical transition as a solution to a medical problem would have had more success even if it's dishonest.

The whole focus on pronouns was also a big mistake.

And the root cause here was being allied with the left and the left dragging trans people down with them as they are being politically destroyed in the US.
Note that i did try to warn trans people about these things and offer a better alternative but most kept pushing leftwing nonsense instead as republicans kept gaining ground.

https://www.reddit.com/r/transmaxxing/comments/j8t1i0/is_gender_identity_politics_bad_for_trans_people/
https://www.reddit.com/r/transmaxxing/comments/oosr45/the_case_for_woman_adult_human_female/
https://www.reddit.com/r/transmaxxing/comments/1351vbs/hrt_changes_your_sex/

The reason why left was unwilling to push for a sensical definition of what a women/female is was that they didn't want to exclude everyone and while this may have felt better at first it allowed conservatives to instead push their view where no trans person gets included at all.

 

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Fertility
One big problems with current medical transition options has been with regard to fertility.
This has also been a problem politically since people do not like to see their children become infertile due to some medical procedure.

While it is possible to bank sperm prior to HRT doing that really isn't that useful since it's impractical to actually utilize said banked sperm in the future.
The practical solution that is actually decently likely to result in reproduction has been to delay medical transition in order to have children or to simply stop HRT hoping that fertility will return (doesn't work if you had SRS or some other castration surgery).

https://www.reddit.com/r/transmaxxing/comments/1bx81zk/study_9_of_9_trans_females_got_their_fertility/

Most americans probably assume that medical transition will result in permanent infertility and this has likely contributed to the anti-trans backlash (probably a bigger issue than gender identity politics).

Maybe in the future we will discover a way to fully preserve fertility for people who take HRT (like some drug to preserve sperm production) but unfortunately there is very little political motivation to pursue that. Even politicians who claim to be supportive of trans people are very uninterested in actually improving the medical transition options.

What made the whole thing worse was trans activists pushing for puberty blockers on trans children, this never made any sense medically speaking.

https://vintologi.com/threads/why-puberty-blockers-is-a-bad-idea.975/

Here again trans activists refused to listed and kept pushing for something that was very harmful. I hope that you will enjoy having Donald Trump as president now (not that kamala would have been much better for trans people).

 

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What i will do going forward
I will simply focus on myself for now or maybe shift focus towards other political issues i am more passionate about right now.

I will try to maintain what we have build so far but i don't plan on spending hours every week on video editing any more and the moderation of our discord channel will be mostly done by others going forward.

katieroxx wrote:

Largely, the political alignment of the trans movement with the left is one of the reasons I haven’t sought the support of those communities. This has probably set back my transition a decade. All you really have to do to see my point is read some of the more mainstream trans subreddits over the last 10 days to see that it an incredibly toxic environment.
MrSink wrote:

I think diy hrt will continue to be accessible even if republicans try very hard to stop it (for the same reason buying illegal drugs is hard to stop). and also I think trans people in lefty states like california and washington will be fine. There is a limit to what the federal government can do, both due to checks and balances and institutional incompetence. and there is limited will to pass effective policy to hinder transitioning. I will not be surprised by: federal ban on puberty blockers, required disclosure from public schools to parents, bans on trans women in women's sports, and symbolic bills defining there to be only 2 genders. I would be surprised by: federal ban on HRT, federal bathroom bill, anything more insane like being put in camps lol

I think trans will continue to be a spicy issue used to fire up the base every 4 years but if you think only in terms of specific policies and material outcomes, the truth is neither side will change things very much for trans people. competent people will be able to transition, always have and always will

vintologi24 wrote:

I do like to be prepared for the absolute worst scenarios but yes most likely trans people will be fine in blue states even after 2024.

Trans people in RED states is a big concern though, that was a big concern even under biden.

I don't think trump is even interested in doing extreme stuff like putting loads of trans people in camps to begin with. Trumps main focus will likely be his own ego and power more than anything, he is not an ideologue.

I also think a lot of republicans actually want trans people to be around so they can campaign against "woke ideology" (whatever that even is).
It remains to be seen what trump does (or at least tried to do) as president but he is getting a massive amount of power now.

My guess is that Trump will focus on going after high profile political opponents (especially people who went after him legally), he is also likely to do mass deportations of people who are not citizens.