Even describing CAMH's methods "neutrally" the way @jessesingal tries to, I shudder at the thought of younger-me being subjected to them.
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He insists that potential "desister" children could be convinced they're trans, but seems to ignore the implicit possibility of the reverse.
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The article does not narrowly focus on the ethics of Zucker's firing, but instead uses that to attack the "larger" issue of trans activism.
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We're out of tune with research, we're "influential" and destroy lives. We "put pressure" on parents.
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Whether Singal wants to acknowledge it or not, his essay is of a piece with populist cis handwringing about the power of trans activists.
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To Singal, who is himself cis, and all the cis people he interviews, it is indeed baffling to think CAMH is all that harmful.
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But for us, the prospect of being scrutinised under a microscope for years, however many toys the clinic has, is indeed frightening.
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When I was a child I had no language for this, no one to speak out for me. Goddess only knows where I'd have been were I in CAMH.
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As ever, Singal never fully spells out what the harm is in allowing even potentially desisting children to experiment with trans identity.
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@Quinnae_Moon Yeah, even granting all the points of argument why exactly is it worse to live as trans but be "really" cis than vice versa2 replies 2 retweets 10 likes
@Quinnae_Moon It's an unstated framing of living as trans as an affliction, a burden
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@Quinnae_Moon If you were to be neutral you'd be *neutral*, you'd treat unwanted "natural" puberty as the same risk as unwanted transition1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes -
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@Quinnae_Moon but this is the naive Hippocratic stance of a lot of bioethics.1 reply 2 retweets 5 likes - Show replies
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