To those suggesting dopamine antagonists to cure dysphoria: I've been on them in the past for various reasons. They don't cure gender dysphoria. They didn't even stop other urges stereotypically associated with dopamine, like sexuality. The one thing I did notice is that it was mostly really fast, excitable, or aggressive music made me feel anything on Risperdal, yet my taste was nearly the opposite on Abilify, with the only common denominators being 80s music, light techno, video game music and vaporwave. Risperdal made me a metalhead. Abilify made me a carpenters fan (who still listened to hard stuff on occasion, but had to turn the volume way down). but neither made me cis. In fact, I think Risperdal slowed me down mentally and kept me away from learning computer engineering, and kept me seeking trans validation for that easy dopamine fix; and it made me start to believe the story I told my therapist to a t. In reality, I thought very little about dysphoria until my junior year when it Occurred that I'd never find a woman partner who will be compatible or be myself around me, and that I didn't want to play the gender roles game in a relationship. That wasn't the reason why I transitioned, But it moved my dysphoria past a passing thought I'd have throughout childhood. And I think I was more meaningful,y satisfied as an introverted teen.
