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That sounds like gender affirming care. They should practice what they preach.
Genuinely, it is gender affirming care. It's replacing sex hormones their body won't produce naturally, to counteract effects that are existentially devastating to their psyche.
They don't wanna say that low-T as an older man feels like gender dysphoria. But have a conversation with a trans guy and an old man about testosterone levels and masculinity and self-image, and you'll have almost the exact same complaint. "I just want to feel like the man I know I am inside."
As a not-old guy with low testosterone, I just have an intractable depression.
It sorta responds to antidepressants. It sorta responds to sunlight therapy. It sorta responds to keeping a handle on my diet and exercise.
Sometimes it’s worse, sometimes it’s better. But I’m almost always struggling with not having energy, being irritable, and feeling overwhelmed.
Going on testosterone was like “ooooh, that’s what that’s supposed to be like.”
They will stare deadpanned directly into your eyes and tell you its somehow not.
I don't see it that way. I see it as age denying care. They still want to be the "studs" they (thought) they were in high school. They're the same guys who wax nostalgically about their "glory days" when they were on the football team and how they "led the team to win the regionals" and they "coulda gone pro" but one of "those people" stole their scholarship.
Did they score 4 touchdowns in one game?
I'd much rather they were all shoe salesmen instead of running the Pentagon.
So they're affirming their desired gender ideal state?
Hmm. I didn't think of it like that, but I never considered that either gender has an "ideal state". It's also, I suppose that, for them, at least, that gender doesn't really factor into their desired state.
Oh, gender absolutely does factor in. Women are seen as lesser because misogyny. And, while the normal person wouldn't consider there to be an ideal state, these people definitely have one in mind. It's toxic hyper masculinity on meth
I disagree. Their gender is their identity, that's why they're so afraid of trans people.
The me I that I didn't realize I was imagining when I was thinking of myself doing cool stuff
Every week they have to regale you with tales of how they scored 4 touchdowns in one game for Polk High