Situating the trans subject and the trans body in the contested discursive space the way she does pulls the conversation around transness into the posture of working to locate the legitimate trans subject.
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The idea being that we must defend against the allegation that too many trans people in the world reflects a problem (that is after all her point). And in so doing we cede the conversation to cis people and institutions.
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And perhaps most insidiously, in so doing, we give the false impression that sexed bodies are things only trans people have. By obscuring the larger structural impulses behind bodily policing and the violence of the sex binary, we ensure the continuation of these structures.
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The fear that a trans person - of any age - might actually love and embrace their body is what drives JK and others. They don’t want to just make it harder for us to survive, they want to destroy any joy we might feel in our journeys.
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Unfortunately, given the behaviour of so many of the national politicians & commentators here in Britain, I can easily imagine it. She's engaged in one of the main past times of those who think they steer or rule this rainy island.
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I reached the point a month or two ago in which I could no longer separate the art from the artist. She gets no more of my time or money. I did something I've never done before and threw her books in the recycling bin. https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLqNhhntML/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link …
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She doesn't need your or anyone else's money. That's why she can speak the truth and isn't cowed into submission by the trans lobby and the pharmacy companies who stand to gain by people relying on drugs for the rest of their lives.
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The bottom line is this. No one should be medicalised without giving their full consent. If under 16s are not deemed capable of buying lottery tickets and tobacco, then they can't consent to Lupron. It's that simple.
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