Here is Why Transition is Not a Magick Pill!
Dr. Z talks about how transition is not a magic pill—it's not going to solve all your problems. She sees people thinking or believing transition is a magic pill that will make everything go away, and it doesn't happen.
Transition is incredibly helpful and necessary for individuals who identify as transgender and don't feel comfortable with their biological gender assigned at birth—they don't feel congruent, have challenges with secondary sex characteristics. Transition (medical and surgical) is very helpful to alleviate dysphoria and bring people closer to congruence with the gender they identify with. It's a very important part of the solution. But it's definitely not a magic pill.
If you had issues prior to transition—financial problems, relationship problems, addiction issues, gambling issues, employment problems, problems with coworkers or friends—whatever you're struggling with, chances are they're going to continue post-transition. Transition is not going to solve these problems or make them go away. It becomes especially dangerous when people think transition is going to help make their inner traumas go away—that's just not how it works.
Watch to find out why transition only helps you get as congruent as possible to the gender you truly feel you are (but doesn't solve other problems—if you're bad with money/finances, you'll still be bad, that's a behavior you have to work on), why certain things are byproducts of gender dysphoria (like addiction as way to cope—transition minimizes it because no need to cover up, but doesn't take it away, now you can focus and work on addiction because it's not serving compensatory function), and why transition isn't magical wishful thinking (won't flip your life 360 degrees in everything, will flip 160 degrees in regards to gender but not everything else).
