I know you guys like the strawman of unattended piles of free hormones in the park but my preferred policy solution is prescriptions dispensed on the informed consent model, which in a decent world would be seen as the compromise position between OTC HRT and medical gatekeeping
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AsaZernik and
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 @arthur_affect and
Dr Erica Anderson says otherwise. Every patient is a unique case. Sometimes doing nothing is the best course of action for certain people. I don't understand why this upsets you.
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Replying to @MichaShrine @polerin and
If someone wants to "do nothing" about their gender then of course "doing nothing" is the right course of action The vast majority of all people today are in fact "doing nothing" and no one is objecting to that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MichaShrine and
If someone WANTS to transition and you put up resistance, you're not "doing nothing" Framing this response as "doing nothing" is fundamentally transphobic
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Replying to @arthur_affect @polerin and
What if that someone is 7 years old? I assume you agree with age of consent laws in other contexts.
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Replying to @MichaShrine @polerin and
Does a seven year old generally have the right to pick out their own clothes and be addressed by the name and pronouns they prefer when they're the "correct" ones?
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Replying to @arthur_affect @polerin and
Yeah that's fine. Why do you ask?
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Because that's the only sense in which a seven year old "transitions"
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