Quote Originally Posted by Sarah Charles View Post
I was recently accused by well-meaning and generally supportive people in my life of "running away" from my "issues", thinking transition would solve them through some sort of magical thinking.
The single most unhelpful and quite possibly the dumbest thing in the entire universe a person could do to "run away" from their "issues" is to transition. There does not exist a single aspect of transition that doesn't add layers of complexity and stress to everyone who experiences it. To suggest that transition is some kind of escape is mind bogglingly dismissive. The mere suggestion is the worst kind of reductive thinking and reveals quite a lot about the lazy mind who is repeating some dribble they kinda heard somewhere one time.