The pro-anorexia sites resembled a set of videos that had begun colonizing the internet: social media sites of trans influencers, in which natal girls calling themselves “transgender boys” or “trans men” boast of how their lives have improved since they started a course of testosterone. The rush it gives them, the thrill at the “happy trail” of dark hair appearing on their bellies, the dissipation—they insist—of all social anxiety.
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You related eds to trans? Both have treatments, ed being ed treatment and if it's dysphoria it is to transition, usually socally to see if it brings down the internal distress the person dealing with gd. If you actually go through the stages of transition it takes time to 1) come to terms with being trans yourself 2) get courage to display that transition because many people are uncomfortable or feel they have the right to make the trans person uncomfortable. These are things i have experienced
