I tend to give this analogy of how hormone therapy works. The year is 1988 and a 19 year old has worked for two years part-time and one year full-time to buy a car, and bought a 1978 XC Falcon. The Falcon had the original AM Radio, but they wanted to listen to an FM station and cassettes, so they went to car accessory place and bought an AM/FM cassette player and has it installed by a friend. The friend then plugged the head unit (the AM/FM cassette player) into the factory speakers and as the new head unit had 25 watt output and the factory speakers only had 5 watts, the factory speakers went, "No way!" the woofer paper split and they broke. So, they went back to the car accessory place and the assistant said, "Okay, you need new speakers." They bought 35 watt speakers for the front doors and 60 watt speakers for the rear parcel shelf and were happy with the result. I say that medical transition is NOT feeding a delusion but aligning the body with the brain, mind and soul, much like matching the output of the head unit to the speakers.

Anti-trans people, I find, can be placed into two categories, the willfully ignorant and (typically the most vocal) those who wish they had the courage to transition, too. I remember, when I was 14, I read about a man who transitioned (I had to hide it from my parents) and then later that year, a newspaper article about another transwoman, who was having trouble having qualifications recognised post-transition (prior to transition, she had been a successful chef). Like me, "Hey, p-word for homosexual male," had been something she had frequently copped at school.

I don't readily relate to other males.