Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Trans (But Were Afraid to Ask)

by Brynn Tannehill

It isn’t being transgender that’s killing us, though. It is the culture we live in, discriminating against us and instilling in us a deeply rooted self-hatred.

A herniated disk won’t kill you, but it will wreck your quality of life. Similarly, this is why every major medical, psychological, psychiatric, and therapist organization in the US has issued statements supporting the medical necessity of GCS.136

When straight, healthy, cisgender people try and pull off what transgender people do on a daily basis (live in the wrong gender), the strain is enough to cause a deterioration in mental health.

“It is important to stress that surgery is not a cosmetic intervention, but one that attempts to reconcile an individual’s core identity and physical characteristics.”

There is a double standard at play here. Transgender people are routinely expected to bare their souls in ways that others aren’t.