Because for many of us it’s lifesaving. I still really want it but I want it less than I did before since HRT has shrunk my penis substantially, before I literally wanted to cut my penis off and I fantasized a lot about doing it. I had friends who actually did, and they still ended up killing themselves bc of it. Bottom surgery saves lives.
Don’t be a jerk and just treat us as you would treat any other woman. It’s not hard, if it feels hard maybe you might not be as nice of a person as you think you are.
Sometimes it do be necessary for some of us. Lucky for me mine shrunk a lot on E, or I very well might’ve done what they did.
I have a feeling they had some serious penis dysphoria, and were using the mushrooms as a coverup so they could cut it off without being outed. I had friends who had dysphoria that bad and couldn’t get bottom surgery due to expense or transphobic doctors and they took matters into their own hands, sadly for many it wasn’t enough and they took their own lives because of the dysphoria.
It feels really shitty that people are mocking this person for this or saying they’re crazy, dysphoria is no joke, and if E hadn’t shrunk mine as much as it did I may have done the same as where I live I can’t get bottom surgery unless I can “prove I’m a woman”, I wouldn’t even have been able to get on estrogen if I didn’t DIY it for the same stupid reason. Thank goodness for grey-market estrogen online.
I never had this experience even back when I started, and I’m DIY, don’t get blood tests either so I just have to be careful. And no I won’t go the official way, because where I am they expect me to degrade myself and prove I am a “real woman” because people totally take estrogen recreationally when they aren’t really women 🙄. I didn’t go out as a “man in a dress” because that would’ve just given me dysphoria, probably what they wanted, so DIY it is for me, yay 😒.