4thWaveNow

“An adolescent I know identifies as male and lives in a female body. He says he’s okay with the dichotomy. His problem is the pressure he feels: medicalize or else. He binds his breasts against his own wishes, despite extreme physical discomfort. He believes that once he is of age, he will have to begin taking masculinizing hormones he doesn’t want. His is a peculiar position, brought about by the peculiar time in which he is coming of age. A time of increased acceptance and possibility, a time of rabid political correctness and the silencing of dissent.”