>>233709
>I'm just pointing out that those people wouldn't have "turned out just fine" in the absence of this particular form of self-harm. They'd still have the same massive psychological issues and hurt themselves some other way.
I largely agree, however the difference I was trying to highlight is that other forms of self harm are less likely to be a lifelong burden. Some people who troon out during a bad stage in life might have been fine in few years if they only developed an eating disorder, engaged in superficial cutting, or hit the gym uncommonly hard--behaviors that can possibly cause long term complications, to be sure, but with a lesser percent chance than hormonal and surgical alteration in service to transgender delusions.
>Tomboys are just like, sporty bitches, they don't have brutal self-hatred issues on top of liking to climb trees or whatever other boy shit. On the contrary, they typically seem unusually chill.
There are well-adjusted tomboys. There are also tomboys with loads of issues. A solid number of tomboys have trauma from mistreatment by their female peers for being abnormal or being too friendly with all of the boys and therefore seen as dangerous competition. One seemingly common archetype of FtM troon is a tomboy, often autistic, who grows up and doesn't like that her male peers no longer treat her like one of the boys and instead view her as a sexually mature woman. Rather than adjusting to this like tomboys past the transgender movement offers a twisted alternative.

I wonder if American HEMA would have an appreciable academic fencing subculture if all our troons were instead cutters.