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terfs need to get anorexia out of their ignorant mouths: a thread
[cw eating disorders, death, self-harm]
[cw eating disorders, death, self-harm]
it's common for TERFs to compare transition and eating disorders: both involve you Mutilating yourself to Please the Patriarchy, apparently, and both should be treated by cleansing you of your delusions and getting you therapy
this is obviously bullshit given a few seconds of scrutiny - transition directs you to an achievable, psychologically beneficial, liveable, stable-ish goal that isn't 'being dead', for starters - but it also betrays a misunderstanding of EDs
i am in fact 'Against' the class of illness that screwed up my brain for ~2-3 years, but EDs are a response to deeper problems with your material reality that you believe, erroneously or otherwise, will be solved by not eating. one of these problems: BEING TRANS
every single type of trans person is at high risk of EDs because 'hey, i feel out of control of my life, i hate my body, i hate its sex characteristics, i hate how i'm perceived, i want 2 die' is likely to lead to either 'hey why not try to lose weight' or 'fuck eating'
people with EDs and trans people are similar in some ways: the public and medical practitioners mistake 'making us look normal & shut up' with meaningful care, and they try to strip us of the agency we desperately need
however, transition is constructive while EDs are destructive. but part of the reason people get EDs is that their desired material existences are rendered untenable by people like terfs. terfism actively produces more EDs and terfs have never done one thing for ED sufferers
