Anonymous asked:
“Because of parents like you.” Parents who dare to question medical transition are all the same to you, aren’t they? We’re just hateful people who don’t care about our kids. Callous killers of our own children. Do you even read what I write? Do you really believe that the only option for a gender nonconforming teenager is to medically transition or die? Because that is what my blog is about: medical transition of minors.
You know nothing about me, but because the rest of your comment/question is reasonably respectful–and, in fact, important–here is my response. I”m copying something I wrote from a longer post on this topic.
But maybe, just maybe, some of these young people want to die because 21st century society has given them the message that they cannot live their lives legitimately and happily in the bodies they were born in if they do not conform to gender stereotypes. That if they don’t like “girly” things or are “sissy boys,” or if they identify with and enjoy pursuits and body ornamentation traditionally associated with the opposite sex, they and their families must push for a medical diagnosis that will commit them to a chronic, expensive health condition involving lifelong drug treatment and repeated plastic surgeries; that they will have to live like Type 1 diabetics, requiring treatment for the rest of their lives. How can all of this pressure to conform not contribute to a sense of hopelessness and despair?
