Washington Post Transgender Person Regrets Decision at 19
Armstrong and Getty read from a WASHINGTON POST article by a trans "woman" who confesses they wish they had known then (age 19) what they do now.
Washington Post:
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When I was 19, I had surgery for sex reassignment, or what is now called gender affirmation surgery. The callow young man who was obsessed with transitioning to womanhood could not have imagined reaching middle age. But now I’m closer to 50, keeping a watchful eye on my 401(k), and dieting and exercising in the hope that I’ll have a healthy retirement.
In terms of my priorities and interests today, that younger incarnation of myself might as well have been a different person — yet that was the person who committed me to a lifetime set apart from my peers.
There is much debate today about transgender treatment, especially for young people. Others might feel differently about their choices, but I know now that I wasn’t old enough to make that decision. Given the strong cultural forces today casting a benign light on these matters, I thought it might be helpful for young people, and their parents, to hear what I wish I had known.
(Read the rest at my site: https://tinyurl.com/2p86b4r7 -- WASHINGTON POST: https://tinyurl.com/2v4s84pb | The fuller segment this was taken from can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2wuvpypc)