HRT/SRS for gender dysphoria is only "medicine" under a radical activist definition. There is no other body integrity disorder we "treat" by mutilating or chemically altering normal human anatomy. If gender dysphoria is a disease of the mind, then it should be treated as such.
Making access to HRT/SRS the end-all, be-all of trans advocacy is a weird erasure of the overwhelming majority of trans people, both today and historically, who never medically transition. It's also a fundamental betrayal of the supposedly-axiomatic principle that gender be decoupled from sex. If the two are distinct, then why do we need to change people's sexual anatomy in order to affirm their gender?
We are quickly barreling towards a future where gender non-conforming young people are told they ought to reject their bodies in order to better live-up to traditional gender stereotypes. For some kids it is already here. That's a future that's worse-off for everybody, queer or not.
Maybe you're right and I am just a
radical activist, but just because my experiences (such as how wrong it felt to have so much testosterone in my blood or even just sit with my genitalia hanging between my legs, how right it felt once I started HRT or went to see a surgeon) are not universal doesn't mean they're rare enough to justify pulling the plug on them. If someone doesn't want to medically transition, they don't have to.
And frankly, if "traditional gender stereotypes" are the reason I've "rejected my body", then I'm not doing a very good job of living up to them.
