This is absolutely true, & one thing that I've been thinking about is how much it all COSTS. I honestly cannot imagine being on the transgender beat & not discussing these issues. In the US most parents would be having nightmares. @jessesingal @sadydoyle
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Replying to @conradian7 @fennec_sasha and
Well, in my state (Oregon) all transgender care is covered by OHP and thus must be covered by all private insurance as well. At the TransActive meeting, there were families who had moved to OR for "free" transgender care for their kids. Moved from TX and moved from OK.
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Replying to @JuliaMasonMD1 @conradian7 and
Those are called "good parents"
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Replying to @fennec_sasha @conradian7 and
What's the chance of one mother having two trans kids? The mom who moved from OK to obtain transition care had both a transboy and a transgirl.
Stunning and brave.
And she said of her third "well, he's a baby, he doesn't know what he is yet."21 replies 1 retweet 33 likes -
Replying to @JuliaMasonMD1 @fennec_sasha and
Whatever you think the cause of being trans is -- be it genetic or environmental, nature or nurture -- since blood siblings raised in the same household share both, the chance of them both being trans is probably pretty high
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JuliaMasonMD1 and
It's actually really obnoxious when people play this kind of card as a gotcha -- trans people MUST be rare, it's a RULE that they be rare, and they must not only be rare but normally distributed throughout the population, by lottery Anything else is sinister
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JuliaMasonMD1 and
The actual point you're making here, that it MUST be the result of a mother MAKING her kids trans and that this constitutes some kind of abuse, is disgusting In and of itself, it is a transphobic sentiment
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JuliaMasonMD1 and
I dunno how to get this across if you don't get it Wanting trans people to be rare, thinking that it's a law of nature that there's a limit to how many trans people you can have and more than that is a "red flag", IS ANTI-TRANS
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JuliaMasonMD1 and
The unprecedented rise in the number of ppl, esp teen girls/young women exp'ing ROGD is a huge red flag that something is amiss. If this were a physically obv aberration, the call to investigate/determine the cause wld be enormous. GD/GID deviates fr norm development in fe/males
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Replying to @smesues @JuliaMasonMD1 and
Nah, there's no red to the flag because there's nothing wrong with being trans The idea that there's a "crisis" is a fundamentally transphobic position, it is a position that cannot be held without holding the position that there's something wrong with transness
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The number of kids identifying as queer compared to previous generations is "skyrocketing" too, do you also have a problem with that? (Don't bother answering, we know the answer is yes)
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