Is it a choice? is survival not an instinct that is part of our nature? If so is being human a choice? I thought if it is a choice its that of my parents (And not mine).
Every cause has an affect?
When one drops a brick into a body of water, it makes a splash. Point is did the water choose to splash? or was it the choice of the brick to fall and not fly to river bank? Or was the splash my choice for having dropped the brick? Or was it the bricks fault for being there? Point is if what I do is a reaction of gender based depression and a survival instinct. Is it my choice to be depressed? Is it my choice for my life to be worthless lest I do this thing, even if only IN
HOPE?
Yes we make choices, but those choices are reactions to things of which we don't have any control?
A life style choice? NO. A choice of survival we are human.
Their is a medical element and various processes involved that can be attributed to "transition" as it is called.
BUT dysphoria is a name for gender based depression. Granted as time passes this depression comes easier to cope with, considering a lot of it is fear of loosing ones we love. Is loving a choice? Is Fear a choice?
There are elements we react to, in a human way because we are human, but these things are outside of our control, and so is being human.
Is it a choice to have diabetes? no. The only choice is to either find a way to live with it or perish. And survival is a human instinct.
Medicine, how humans help humans bear their burdens in order to provide a better quality of life. Any one wishing to live and live as happily as possible is going to choose this. If it is a treatment for something that affect their life so negatively it becomes almost worthless if not worthless.
I am human, and do not want to die, I know I will but I want to live, and to live as long and as happily as I can. Why Because I'm human, and that is not my choice.
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Quote from: Jill F on June 10, 2014, 02:19:45 PM
Jessica, I simply don't agree with your former lifestyle choices of high blood pressure and hyperglycemia.
So read a bit further, And lols at this.
Kind of blunt and straight forwardly and humorously, making my point