Apologies if this has already been covered.
I was having a chat with a friend who is involved professionally in the area of gender (realise this is vague but don't want to be too specific).
We were talking about GID Bill and my concerns for women only spaces and she pointed out something that I hadn't thought of. By de-medicalising the process of officially changing one's gender and negating need for gender dysphoria diagnosis, it could actually make it harder for people to access medical interventions like hormones and gender reassignment surgery.
Her theory being, if we dispense with the view that it is a disorder then we don't need to provide treatment.
Her view is that in the long run it will create a lot more barriers for trans people accessing such treatment on the NHS as they would have to try and prove they really needed it; as after all nothing would be stopping them filling in a form and changing gender officially and living as their target gender.
It got me thinking. Are transactivists aware of this? that they are supporting something that could actually restrict them further? or is my friend wrong?
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TheEgregiousPeach · 02/11/2017 12:18
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