I’ve seen this before on transgender trend, but read it properly today.
This bit, quoted from Olson- Kennedy, the US trans kids medical guru and proponent of the affirmative approach, is really astounding.
I’ve thought before that the TRA approach re kids is really presenting gender as a “choice” that can be made, but this woman trivialises surgery and the body completely, treating it as something that can be changed and modified, maybe just for a while (tho obviously most changes are irreversible) according to the feeling of the moment. It’s like changing your clothes or hairstyle. Quite chilling. I can’t think that most people can think this is OK. This is so far from ideas of gender dysphoria.
“Gender expression is incredibly fluid for all humans including cisgender people and so having these conversations about what elements of your physical body do you want to impact or might even want to change.. I’ve had non-binary folks assigned female at birth who take testosterone for a year and they know they’re going to take it for a year and they stop after their voice goes down or some other element of their physicality changes and they’re feeling comfortable in that presentation. A lot of non-binary young people assigned female at birth really only want chest surgery and that’s a critical piece for them in order to express their gender in a way that feels most authentic for them.”