Transness is not mental illness. Neither is autism. If you can respect my pronouns you can respect my autism, my womanhood is autistic.

The stigma on neurodivergence, the misinformation pushed by "experts", the everyday prejudice, the opposition and stigma from people who deny your needs or think u need to be "cured" when all we want are treatments and accommodations... the struggles of transness are comparable

Consider a situation that is sadly not hypothetical: a she/her trans woman wants HRT and is called a "transm*dicalist" by her friends, who have internalized a misogynist notion that "traditional" transfemininity is inauthentic and invalidates others (1/5)

At the same time, real transm*ds and t*rfs deny that she is a woman because of their repressive, jargon-laden requirements for (trans)femininity. And her gp is making her run thru ridiculous hoops for her to get what she knows she needs. She starts internalizing stigma. (2/5)

She wonders if she counts, if it's really okay for her to "want to be a real woman." She doesnt try out gender affirming clothes bcuz she fears being seen as a stereotype. Her hormones are causing her pain and her gender dysphoria is immense. She needs HRT. (3/5)

Now think about ADHD. It has a prescription treatment that works for the majority of ADHD people, but it is not a cure. Our bodies are failing to produce a chemical that vyvanse or adderal replaces. Many of us who have ADHD are afraid it will change us beyond recognition (4/5)

or somehow make us conformists or failures. We feel stupid, we feel like it means we don't have any agency, we dismiss our self-diagnoses, we fear permanent damage that does not happen. We feel so alone before we know for sure. Do you see why i think we have a common cause? (5/5)

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