Are you okay with a qualified physician dispensing a professional opinion to someone that their dysmorphia is something they will probably grow out of?
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Replying to @MichaShrine @arthur_affect and
Fuck you no, because it further stigmatizes those of us for whom it doesn't go away, and potentially makes us deal with decades if dysphoria. The medical professionals I have interacted with around transness have been so shitty, with only a few exceptions.
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Replying to @polerin @MichaShrine and
And don't act like doctors "professional opinions" on matters like this aren't strongly affected by the transphobic society they are a part of. Transness isn't the fallback plan, there is not only nothing wrong with being trans, it can be pretty dang awesome.
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Replying to @polerin @MichaShrine and
Doctors saying "don't worry about it, you'll go back to normal" just positions those of us who aren't cis as defective. I reject this wholesale. There is nothing about working with assigned gender nonconformance as a child that should be approched from the position of +
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Replying to @polerin @MichaShrine and
+ " maybe if we don't do anything it will go away". There is no harm in helping trans kids get to a point where they can make decisions about the changes in their body.
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Replying to @polerin @MichaShrine and
in fact, even if kids do decide to not pursue transition (whatever that means in this context?) wouldn't giving them a chance to explore their identity and their options give them a better outcome anyway? One where they don't have to wonder as much?
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When did you realize you were woke?
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Replying to @MichaShrine @millbot and
I've never realized I was "woke" because that way of using the word is only employed by racist assholes
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Replying to @arthur_affect @millbot and
Oh look. A woke person is calling me racist. Whatever shall I do?
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Probably just keep on being an asshole
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