If people are too young to have sex, they are too young to change their sex. You'd think that wouldn't you? But the book emphasises the desire of clinicians to help these children who are suffering terribly, and if the child is sure it's what they want, and the families are sure it's what they want, and Mermaids or Gendered Intelligence is screaming that the child must be given these drugs, and it's what brings the money in, and your bosses have an eye to that income, and received wisdom says that puberty blockers are fully reversible, it's easy to see why many just did the thing.
But the thing that really puzzles me about the whole trans phenomenon is the way it buys into binary gender roles.
I couldn't agree more. To me it seems that gender is a bunch of stereotypes harming men and women, and it's worrying to see tropes treated as realistic templates around which to base one's existence. It might work for some people, but it's made many very unhappy. One trans friend told a close mate that they were 'more woman' than she was because they liked to wear mascara (mate doesn't do make-up) and because they would happily have had sex at 13 if it meant they could have a baby. Their psychiatrist told them that this was because they had a 'female brain.'
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Date: 2023-03-24 07:40 am (UTC)You'd think that wouldn't you? But the book emphasises the desire of clinicians to help these children who are suffering terribly, and if the child is sure it's what they want, and the families are sure it's what they want, and Mermaids or Gendered Intelligence is screaming that the child must be given these drugs, and it's what brings the money in, and your bosses have an eye to that income, and received wisdom says that puberty blockers are fully reversible, it's easy to see why many just did the thing.
But the thing that really puzzles me about the whole trans phenomenon is the way it buys into binary gender roles.
I couldn't agree more. To me it seems that gender is a bunch of stereotypes harming men and women, and it's worrying to see tropes treated as realistic templates around which to base one's existence. It might work for some people, but it's made many very unhappy. One trans friend told a close mate that they were 'more woman' than she was because they liked to wear mascara (mate doesn't do make-up) and because they would happily have had sex at 13 if it meant they could have a baby. Their psychiatrist told them that this was because they had a 'female brain.'