PM Scott Morrison is an awful human being. His stance is not based on any concern for women or children, but in extremely conservative religious values.
It seems that the Australian medical fraternity is taking a softly, softly approach.
I'm fascinated that people seem incapable of drawing the lines between the increasing narrowness of acceptable gender roles, especially for girls, and an increase in girls presenting as trans-questioning, at the least.
So little attention is paid to female distress as a function of social organisation, you'd think women didn't exist at all.
Girls wanting to be boys is actually an understandable indication of how fucking hard it is to be a teenage girl. Medicalising that anxiety benefits the "experts" and drug companies, while managing to completely ignore the fundamental problem. Instead of treating this distress as a symptom of the toxicity of the patriarchy, we hold out a false escape route based on hormones and major surgery.
Moreover, social contagion is clearly a thing: we only have to look at social fads like the ice-bucket challenge or fidget spinners to recognise this.
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