I’ve learned a lot in the past 24 hours about the pain experienced by women who have detransitioned. I’m also realizing more deeply the suffering of people who have strong physical dysphoria; women who feel their only viable option is hormones and surgery. I am not equipped to advise anyone on that. My family situation doesn’t pertain to that kind of physical dysphoria, and I am not dysphoric myself.

Ideally, there would be therapists and MDs who specialize in exploring alternatives to hormones and surgery for people with physical dysphoria, and we could put together resource lists. But as someone said to me today in a private message: “I can see why it would be difficult to call out doctors and therapists. No one is really outraged at them. In fact the outrage is directed at doctors and therapists who don’t just do as they are told by their patients. Any conversation that does not affirm what [the person with dysphoria immediately] wants is now being framed as attempts to practice conversion therapy. “

twentythreetimes rightly said the focus and heat should be on providers who are rushing people into medical transition.  But the providers who might be sympathetic are afraid to speak up.

What can be done?