What if transition functions more like addiction than identity?
Ginny Welsh explores the comparison through the “Four C’s of addiction” — craving, compulsion, control, and consequences — and explains why detransitioners can’t just “move on.”
https://genspect.org/transition-as-addiction-why-not-move-on/
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