Transitioning prevents treatment of the true illness and launches a lifestyle of delusion and deception. Maintaining the illusion requires taking continuous hormones that can further destabilize an already fragile mental state and cause additional health problems as well along with possible surgical modifications and complications. Living that lie every day has to be emotionally, physically, financially, and spiritually draining. On top of that, realizing that they have destroyed their bodies and chance to live a healthy life based on lies has to be devastating.