Castration, sex change... "drug girl" trapped in a man's body

In this world, besides men and women, there is also this group of people:

They wear delicate makeup and beautiful dresses. Although they behave like girls, they have a man's body. For them, insults such as "shemale", "pervert" and "disgusting" are already commonplace.

Having a male body and a female heart, this sense of separation is an unbearable and unspeakable pain for transgender women.

In order to make themselves closer to real women, most of them will change their physiological state (mainly physical characteristics) by taking or injecting drugs, so they are also called "drug girls."

Drug girls are usually unable to psychologically identify with their innate male biological gender, and believe that they should belong to women, and are classified as a "transgender group."

For example

Xiao Li's physical characteristics are male, but he has always considered himself a soft girl since he was a child and that he should have a group of girlfriends. This is gender identity.

Normal boys like to wear short sleeves + shorts + slippers, but Xiao Li thinks that pink skirt and long hair are most suitable for him. This is called gender expression.

When gender identity and expression are inconsistent with biological sex, one is considered transgender.

When a person does not identify with his or her biological gender, he or she will be very confused and in pain. Is it her or him? Wearing men's clothes or women's clothes? Going to the men's toilet or the women's toilet? ...

Psychological identity drives drug addicts to shave their body hair, hide their Adam's apple, grow their hair long, wear skirts...but these are only temporary solutions and not the root cause. Therefore, some people choose to take hormone drugs to try to weaken and reverse their male physical signs.

They call medicine candy, and only when you eat candy during adolescence can you get the best effect. There are many kinds of candy, which are divided into three categories: anti-androgen drugs, estrogen, and progesterone.

After taking the medicine, the drug girls' beards stop growing, their skin starts to become delicate, their breasts start to swell, their genitals lose function and stop developing... their appearance begins to resemble that of women.

However, these three types of drugs are all "hormone drugs" that should be used with caution. If they are used in excess or improperly, they will have serious side effects. Drug girls are young and have weak discernment. In order to achieve their goals, they "use drugs indiscriminately", which can lead to serious consequences. Common side effects include the following:

Common reactions include headache, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, drowsiness, and depression, which are more severe after stopping the drug, also known as "withdrawal reactions";

Moon face, buffalo hump, muscle atrophy and weakness, osteoporosis, acne, etc.;

Hypercholesterolemia, hyperglycemia, hypokalemia, hypertension and edema, etc.;

Mania, depression;

Affects sexual function, reduces sperm quality, and may even lead to infertility;

Affects life span, and long-term/excessive use will shorten life span.

In various "drug girl QQ groups", there are many drug girls who suffer from weakness, hair loss, insomnia, irritability, depression, and physical pain in the lower body due to long-term use of various hormone drugs.

The point is, the damage caused to the body by taking hormone drugs is irreversible!!

When their sexual characteristics change, drug addicts have to endure the physical suffering while trying to hide themselves.

Because once they are discovered, they will face overwhelming criticism and boycott from the outside world, and their families are no exception.

The situation of these sexual minorities is more difficult than we imagined. The "Survival Status of Sexual Minorities in China" published by the United Nations Development Program in 2016 shows that the incidence of discrimination against sexual minorities in China is the highest in the family.

The "Survey Report on the Living Status of China's Transgender Community" released in 2017 by the Beijing LGBT Center and the Department of Sociology of Peking University also showed that almost all the respondents whose parents or guardians knew their identity as drug addicts had suffered violence from their original families more than once.

Family members’ lack of understanding, verbal abuse, imprisonment, violent beatings, sending to mental hospitals, and even severance of parent-child relations;

Bullying and ridicule in school;

Unfair treatment in the workplace;

"Pervert" in the mouth of strangers

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In this environment, drug addicts become more anxious and depressed, and some even choose to self-harm or commit suicide.

Figure | A transgender girl seeking help on Weibo in 2018

At the same time, this also forces most drug girls to pursue their spiritual self regardless of the consequences, "I won't be recognized anyway, so I might as well be myself."

So, some people undergo sex reassignment surgery, while others continue to eat candy...

However, many of the drug girls are young people who are not well-versed in the world. They do not have the ability to judge right from wrong and are easily influenced by other people's ideas. They act blindly, and even go to private clinics for castration surgery out of anger or anxiety to become a girl. There are many examples of self-castration:

The drug girl clearly started eating candy at the age of 16, and then cut off her own genitals;

Medicine girl Luo Yue started taking sugar at the age of 18 and went to a private clinic for castration (castration);

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Source | The Paper

Taking medicine and castration (castration) cost such a huge price, why do these women still make this choice?

There is only one answer, that is, the pain caused by gender identity disorder is far greater than taking medicine or self-harm.

They do this just to be themselves.

Source | The Paper

Medicine girl Qingtong once said this

After experiencing countless times of self-doubt and self-deception, I have lost a lot of courage to fight against life, so I want to let go of my entire self to love this world and to love the right people.

For most drug-treated women, gender reassignment surgery is a goal they can never achieve in their lifetime, so they can only choose to take medicine as a second choice.

According to the "Survey Report on the Living Status of China's Transgender Community", more than half of transgender people need gender reassignment surgery, and nearly 90% of them are forced not to undergo surgery due to reasons such as financial constraints, parental disagreement, or being under 20 years old.

Even if the family supports it and the financial conditions allow, the following conditions must be met if the woman wants to undergo surgery:

The sex change requirement must last for at least 5 years without relapse;

Received psychological and psychiatric treatment for more than 1 year before surgery and the treatment was ineffective;

Not in marriage;

Aged over 20 and with full civil capacity;

There are no contraindications to surgery.

Such a rigorous procedure has eliminated a large number of drug addicts. However, surgery is not the only solution, but the last resort among multiple solutions.

The best solution is for their families and the entire society to treat them with more tolerance and understanding. "They are really not perverts or monsters." It's just that God made a mistake when placing their souls, and they are just trying to reverse God's mistake and become the gender they should belong to.

I think that when their families give them enough recognition and understanding, and when society gives them enough tolerance, they will be able to find the value of their own existence like all normal people and walk upright in the sun.