Trans activist: "Helping dysphoric kids accept their bodies is transphobic because it assumes cis is a better outcome than trans." Cancer patient: "Going into remission & avoiding years of chemo is cancer-phobic because it assumes cancer-free is a better outcome than cancer."
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Now parents who take that compassionate view--that, if possible, their child resolving dysphoria and feeling at home in their bodies is better than drugs and surgeries--are branded "bigots" not just by activists, but by journalists who should know better.
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This attitude (rampant in the US) is the exact opposite of a sane adult's. It's celebrating irreversible, serious medical interventions--even on young people who aren't dysphoric, but looking for a designer approach to their ambiguous "identities." https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/when-kids-come-in-saying-they-are-transgender-or-no-gender-these-doctors-try-to-help/2018/01/19/f635e5fa-dac0-11e7-a841-2066faf731ef_story.html?sw_bypass=true&utm_term=.79e86542f6a0 …pic.twitter.com/HSom63heF9
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@washingtonpost along with most other major media outlets is complicit in the medicalization of gender-atypical youth--or even just youth caught up in the identity fad. The effects of testosterone are PERMANENT in females.pic.twitter.com/rmFfbWxk5A
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We agree. But at least those earlier clinicians weren't celebrating/pushing child transition. They did, though, indeed open a Pandora's box with their use of puberty blockers.
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