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"Eleven months ago, I published
Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is
Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies. The essay
documents the long history of gender-affirming care (over 100 years!) and
compiles three decades worth of research studies and reviews (over 100
articles!) which together show that gender affirmative approaches to trans and
gender-diverse youth are beneficial whereas gender-disaffirming approaches are
harmful. I have just updated that reference list to include even more papers
(most published in the last year) that further contribute to this large body of
evidence.
But of course, no matter how much evidenced is amassed, there will always be
some people who will continue to oppose gender-affirming care for one reason or
other. A sizeable chunk of the population wants to eradicate or morally mandate
trans people out of existence more generally. Others fancy themselves as
skeptics who presume that trans people must be "deluded," "brainwashed," or
following a new "trend," despite the fact that we have always existed and are a
part of natural variation. Some are parents who insist that their own child
cannot possibly be trans and thus embrace any alternatives (junk science,
conspiracy theories) that help them rationalize that belief.
In the final section of my essay on the anti-trans parent movement and in the
intro to my spotting media bias on detransition essay, I discuss some of the
unconscious biases that make many of us — even those who identify as pro-trans
or neutral on the matter — suspicious of gender-affirming care. Specifically,
there's a tendency to view cis bodies as "natural" and "pure" relative to trans
bodies, which are imagined to be "artificial," "defective," "mutilated," and/or
"corrupted" in comparison. This is why most people find it so difficult to
relate to trans accounts of the dysphoria we experienced pre-transition and how
much happier and healthier we are post-transition, as this runs counter to
their own assessments of us. And it's why people tend to be so alarmed by any
potential irreversible effects associated with gender-affirming care, while
never expressing similar levels of concern for the analogous irreversible
effects that trans people experience when we are subjected to unwanted
endogenous puberties."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
