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Myths and how to bust them.

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I often get frustrated by the inaccurate information and urban myths that get passed around in trans* communities, and have really started to wish there was a sort of Snopes for trans* myths I could point people at. It's not the 'trans myths' that often get debunked on 101 sites, and more about the medical side of things. False notions about surgery, wildly overstated or understated risks of medical transition, misunderstandings about herbal remedies, etc., get thrown around as total fact a lot more than I'd expect.

Unfortunately, solid, factual information is often pretty hard to find. Either it's buried underneath a load of nonsense in search results, or it's in academic papers that are behind paywalls and/or hard to translate into layman's language. I'm just wondering what the best ways are to confront these urban myths?