I can’t find an open link but it’s an interview with Stella O’Malley; a psychotherapist, who was convinced as a child that she should have been a boy. “Puberty was a train wreck. And yet ultimately it fundamentally released me from what is now termed gender dysphoria.”
She goes on to talk about her contribution to a new book “Inventing Transgender Children and Young People”.
“‘Born in the wrong body’ is a great description of a feeling but it’s not a diagnosis. And, psychologically, that is a very dangerous thing to say to somebody.... are people who are born in very challenging bodies, through disability, are they born in the ‘wrong’ body? I reject the concept. We’re born in the body we have.”
She goes on to talk about the guiding concept of healthcare “first so no harm” and then strong commentary on the silencing of debate and how pernicious that is; “A sign of a progressive society I’d that we debate, discuss, argue. We permit disagreement, because after robust disagreement, one gets better solutions.”
Great article and it gives me a tiny bit of hope that the absolutely unquestioning woke-washing of modern Irish life might still stand a chance of being shaped, maybe, a little bit, by the nuance of frank, rational debate.