That's because it's not controversial and that's why it's so weird we're focused on it.
Minors are in the vast majority of times given puberty blockers at most which is a reversible process.
The focus on this non-issue is to generate controversy and impact hormonal care of minors and all care for adult trans people and everyone keeps falling for it
Nobody is trying to convince trans people they need surgery, it just so happens that it's an effective treatment for dysphoria as has been proven in study after study after study.
It's a choice between the patient and their doctors. Perhaps it's societal, perhaps not. Either way your magical idealism world doesn't actually exist in real life so it should continue to be a practice because it works
Signed,
A trans woman who will have some but not all surgical treatments.
That's fair. It's well known in America as it's a big event for a big American holiday that's primarily watched by older, less online people and bored kids at a family members house which is why I bought it up. Local news was talking about the whole phenomenon because if it. But out of that American context you're right that it wouldn't be as meaningful.
I understand the breakdown but the brainworms are still really present even in this comment. So I'm gonna rant a little.
The issue "hon culture" and the term "hon" in general is that it others non passing trans women.
TTTT has such a huge self hating obsession with non passing, that they elevate it and create something that doesn't really exist outside their twisted world view.
The irony is that many of them do pass, they just have a horriblly mysogynistic view of women that they directed inwardly at themselves. Cis women don't really get to chose the woman they get to be either and many if not most would fail those standards.
The term toxic positivity and hugboxing is also largely misunderstood. Everytime I've seen it it's just TTTT people complaining that they can't spread their bile, or that they didn't get the masochistic hit of self hatred. People being overly supportive is not nearly as toxic as the alternative.
I understand why you feel the way you do. I'm probably one of those toxicly positive people you are taking about, but I still feel the same kind of dysphoria and self hatred too.
But I also know I don't have to let that same hated control me or my actions. And I know I would never direct it towards or even enable it in my trans siblings.
BRICS really limits the amount of impact a western sanction has. US/Europe isn't the only game in town by a long shot.
(not trying to get into a debate about the merits of such, just talking factually)