I guess my only thought to this research is somewhere between:
DUH!
and
GEE WILLIKERS! YA THINK!?
It makes me so ... angry that we're being honest, that transition is something that really does helps us, that the younger we deal with it the better off we are, and that people don't believe us and that our lives can be made so much better if people just listen to us and leave us alone. But no! We have to have studies done just to get people to even think "Hm... maybe they're just being honest." And even then, people still just brush these studies aside, saying that they just don't believe 'that hocus pocus' as my brother said, because, science and doctors and psychiatrists and professionals can't possibly be right and know what they're talking about ... no no. It's just 'weird' or other uneducated ignorant garbage that they say to try to brush off any research that says, "we're normal, we just need a little help and we'll be ok", because that's just not what they want to hear.
I'm not angry at the researchers, and I'm not angry about the study itself. I'm just ... it makes me angry that this kind of thing needs to be researched at all since it really should be self evident and just common freaking sense. ... And then the people who need to hear it most still dismiss it with a simple wave of the hand.
