the “natural” transition
i consider my transition natural. sometimes i also consider it, favorably i might add, unnatural. but i never think of it as artificial.
it drives me a bit nuts when i see “natural” transition offered as an alternative to an allopathic model of transitioning. i don’t think allopathic medicine is ideal or even for the majority good, but that’s aside the point: how is what i’ve done unnatural?
the testosterone in my body is natural. the oil it’s suspended in, is natural. my masculinity, manhood, maleness, are all totally natural to me. every hair that popped out of my face and every muscle that grew, and every boner i’ve woken up with in the morning has all felt damn natural to me.
we are made out of chemicals folks. nobody would force diabetics to pursue a “natural” treatment of diabetes. i want to take a precise amount of testosterone, i want to know precisely how it is used in my body, and i want to get blood work to check my hemoglobin and shit sometimes. that’s all pretty rational, but i don’t see rationality as mutually exclusive with the natural.
dislike is too gentle a term for the feeling i have towards the system of gatekeepers in allopathic medicine. i could go on and on about that. but i don’t think the best alternative is to say pursue transition “naturally.” while i’d prefer to be independent of the medical industrial apparatus, i am also thankful that i know what’s in the chemistry i inject into my butt’s—and then my—chemistry every week.
anyway let’s hope someday such arguments become irrelevant since everyone will have a basic medical education, be able to safely modify their bodies as they wish, and not have a huge complex about being unnatural. :d
thank you for saying this.
