>>213642062It genuinely saddens me that they have to go through that. I can't properly imagine the sort of suffering they must feel all the time, unable to escape from their own minds, driven to such self-mutilation in an attempt to relieve themselves of it if only for a moment, often not even working because the issue is mental and not physical. If we were truly a humane society, we'd be advocating for cures and treatments to stop the dysphoria at the source, looking for research into how to correct the error that leaves them in such turmoil.
Instead, we've abandoned them to a fate of saying "just pretend, it'll be fine", as if reality itself is going to buckle and grant them their delusion. All of the shit they go through, and add on top a healthcare system that tells them they have to give in to it.