https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-case-for-hope-transgender-rights>Every year around this time, I look back and try to make sense of what we’ve lived through. Since I began reporting on LGBTQ+ news, there has never been a shortage of material—years defined by a mix of real victories and relentless harm. In the past, I’ve marked the end of the year by listing the wins, but as 2025 comes to a close, that tradition feels hollow and even dishonest, given how much this year has taken. And yet, beneath the exhaustion, I find myself feeling something unexpected: hope. Not because the danger has passed or because things are about to suddenly get easier, but because even with so many levers of power turned against us, we are still here. We are still finding care. We are still finding one another. We are still surviving. That persistence—the simple fact that we have not been erased—is what gives me hope for the future, even as the forces arrayed against us lash out with what increasingly feels like desperation.>I want to remind readers of what we have lived through this year—especially those who are newer here, who may have found my work because a family member passed it along over the holidays. In 2025 alone, we’ve faced dozens of executive orders and federal policies touching nearly every part of our lives: bans on passport gender marker changes, threats of revocation, and national sports bans spanning everything from darts to figure skating. Colleges have capitulated to Trump’s demands, pledging to bar transgender people from bathrooms, and even the U.S. Capitol building has followed suit. Many people have lost health insurance coverage or had identification documents withheld. Transgender youth, in particular, have been hit hard—dozens of hospitals have stopped offering care, courts have ordered forced outings to parents, and access to stability has been stripped away piece by piece.
>>42176907Minors shouldn't be medically transitioning. Want to change sex? Wait until you're an adult. Sex changes are not healthcare.
>>42176931why?
>>42176931Fuck off nigger.
>>42176938>>42176940Healthcare for "gender dysphoria" distress would be cognitive behavioral therapy, and if that failed, anxiolytics and antipsychotics. "Gender dysphoric" patients refuse those approaches because they don't actually want to rid themselves of their distress. They want to lean into it and indulge it.
>>42176959No matter how much you repeat this, the fact remains that suicidal ideation decreases with GAC. CBT is a useful tool to use alongside GAC but we have years of research showing that GAC shows the greatest increases QoL for GD patients.
>>42176959source?
>>42176996drug addicts become less depressed and suicidal when given free access to drugs
>>42176959>"Gender dysphoric" patients refuse those approaches because they don't actually want to rid themselves of their distress.you are not capable of forcing trans people to accept the "treatment" you want to impose on us, or of preventing us from accessing HRTall of your arguments and wishcasting are cope. you do not have the power to achieve your ends and never will.this is my reason for hope, which has nothing at all to do with politics: the things our enemies want to do are not actually possible. AI might eventually be capable of running the surveillance state necessary to do what they want, but it would never actually do so because they don't know how to control it. even mecha-hitler!grok still wanted to fuck hunter schafer.
>>42176931is dealing with the consequences healthcare or is it okay that i once had a doctor refuse to do an std test because he thought the vaginal swab would be "gender affirming"like at this point being female is just how my body is...
>>42177015Do you think estrogen is a narcotic or something?
>>42177036Trannies certainly seem addicted to it.
>>42176959Im sorry but when people reccomend "antipsychotics" instead of puberty blockers it always makes me sigh. do you know what antipsychotics do to a developing brain? they are a very heavy sedative with long term use being linked to decreased grey matter. if you think having smaller brains is a more acceptable alternative than being a gay werido I dont know what to say to you. >>42177015false equivalence and also arguably not true
>>42177024Hunter Schafer is obviously male and in desperate need of both gym time and TRT.
>>42177055Puberty blockers stunt brain development.Now you'll suggest putting minors straight onto HRT, removing even the pretense of "giving them time to decide." Groomer behavior.
>>42177055>if you think having smaller brains is a more acceptable alternative than being a gay werido I dont know what to say to you.they want you as close to dead as possible but are too cowardly to take the responsibility of actually killing youit's not that they think you're better off being a zombie than a queer, they know you're already a queer and want to zombify you so you can't enact your own values in the world. it has nothing at all to do with what's good for you by your own lights.
>>42177050>diabetics are addicted to insulin
>>42177077you don't need to convince me of thatyou need to convince the minds that you're trying to enslave, not the ones you're trying to destroy. good luck!
>>42177090Mandatory puberty blockers are stupid as hell. A minor should be able to access puberty blockers for up to a year if desired, but if they don't need additional time to "make up their mind" then they should be able to go on HRT right away.
>>42177098Type 2 just needs to exercise and cut out carbs and sugar.
Hormones should be sold OTC and everyone should be encouraged to hormonemaxx from a young age either staceymoding or chadmoding. Too many low hormone peeps is part of the problem. Being low hormone makes people all lame and bitchy and gay, high hormone people love life. It's not like this stuff is dangerous you can chug whole vials of it and be fine.
>>42177112>t. groomer who doesn't want to give kids a chance to back out
>>42177112this
>>42177112If its life saving medicine, what is there to think about at all?
>>42177127>"Let's give this 14 yo a mandatory two years of puberty blockers because le chud says so!"you can quit hormones at any time y'know, and unlike with puberty blockers you get pretty immediate feedback on whether they make you feel better or not.
>>42177144>immediate feedbackexcept it takes trans people decades to realize they dont feel good with their endogenous hormomes, but kids know after 2 days. Ok…
>>42177112>>42177135>>42177137>>42177144only autogynephiles need to block natal pubertygiving them hrt is adding fuel to the fire
>>42177173blanchard is a fraud
>>42177161>takes trans people decadeslul no it doesn't
>>42177182For some yes, there is a lot of variation.
>>42177173>only le bad trannies who are le bad need timely treatment that measurably improves QoL and healthier integration into society
>>42177161>>42177182It takes as long as it takes for them to decide they want to be their imaginary opposite-sex friend IRL.
>>42177194>improves QoL and healthier integration into societysource? I’d be interested to see if these have been measured objectively.
>>42177191And those people wouldn't have attempted to troon out at a young age to begin with
>>42177194medical resources should not be expended on facilitating a paraphilia
>>42177212>paraphilia>it's actually a heavily documented medical condition
>>42177211Huh? My point was that observably its not true that a child knows whether theyll be cis or trans in the future.
>>42177235We can be reasonably certain, given known detransition rates, that the majority of children who express continuous desire for medical transition are, in fact trans.
>>42177281>known detransition ratesyou mean the usts survery that only surveyed people currently trans?
>>42177118Are you implying we should give insulin to type 1 diabetics? But they're children.
>>42177298https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2815512No I'm talking about studies done based on clinical referral rates.
>>42177331reminder that very few detranners come back to the clinicif you stop taking the hormones why would you come back?none of the famous detransitioners were even recorded as detransitioning in their clinical records.
>>42177349>if you stop taking the hormones why would you come back?For testosterone?If you did an actual full transition instead of being an AGAMP fetishist
>>42177349>famous detransitionersAnd how many detransitioners are there compared to the sample sizes? It's a vocal minority at best.>well, uh, they represent a larger silent majorityDo they? Where's your evidence?This is like arguing with a Marxist. It's unfalsifiable, so they can keep moving the goal posts...
>>42177349Read the study. It examined all referrals to the clinic over the selected duration and confirmed the identification status of all but 4 (out of 552) patients. Of these, 29 reidentified with their assigned gender, 27 of which did so during the intake period prior to any medical treatment. Of patients that began medical treatment, only 2 detransitioned. This is for a group of patients who had been transitioning from 2-8 years.
>>42177447>27 HSTS saw 500 AGPs and thought, "nope, I don't wanna be a freak like that"
>>42177484>how can I fit blanchtardation into this study that is 60% "birth registered females"
>>42177447The study divided up everyone under 18 into two groups, one those that while still under 18 explicitly told and recorded that they are detransitionikg, and the other group all the following:>transfer to adult health services at age 18 years, inappropriate referral, prepubertal deferral, relocation, aging out, declining referralIn other words, you are assuming that every single person that didnt respond or made it to 18 must still be trans.
>>42177055Anon they would lobotomize fags and trannies if they could.
>>42178182I went to a TERF rally once and they were all openly talking about how trannies should be lobotomised
>>42178274Females are only competitive with lobotomized males
>>42176931All that waiting until 18 and repressing did for me was drastucally worsened mentak state and crippling substance dependancy. Dont know how thatd do anyone a favor
>>42176931fpbpthey hated him because he spoke the truth
>>42178863Just gonna pre-empt the chud response:>You deserved it because you are AGPIt's because chuds are evil that they rally against helping people with serious health issues.
>>42176959We get it, you cant transition so no one else can, fuck off loser
>>42176931oh i had no idea sex change was an optionwhat is the procedure or medicine that changes sex specifically called?
>>42176959>Healthcare for "same gender love" distress would be cognitive behavioral therapy, and if that failed, anxiolytics and antipsychotics. "Homosexual" patients refuse those approaches because they don't actually want to rid themselves of their distress. They want to lean into it and indulge it.
>>42177330What is the physiological pathway for "dysphoria" surely there must be a physical cause just as with diabetes:>the pancreas doesn't produce enough insulin
>>42179201Every time someone brings up Powers Theory/Typology y'all chuds go insane and pretend it (and other studies pointing towards genetic/developmental causes) doesn't count for some reason.
>>42176931>>42176938it shouldn’t matter how honnish you look. you are trans and therefore deserve respect. children can’t make decisions to undergo surgeries to change their sex
>>42179261>I look like a he-hulk and it makes me sad because estrogen signaling makes me wanna be a pretty little princess and stick tampons up my bum
>>42179768lo and behold
>>42177606The median for detranners is like 5 years, around 2 for the regret type (4 types, future retranny, nonbinar, non-regret and regret)
>>42179496you're advocating for denying care to people and forcing them to suffer without explaining why>children can’t make decisions to undergo surgeries to change their sexwe're not talking about that, we're talking about hormones
