Why are trans voices like mine minimized in the “debate” around our own health care?
Chase Strangio, an attorney and transgender rights activist, delivers remarks during the"Trans Youth Prom" outside of the U.S. Capitol building on May 22, 2023, in Washington, D.C.praising restrictions on access to gender-affirming medical care for trans adolescents. This time from David Brooks. Thankfully, I did not fixate on Brooks’s piece while I was away, but I did have space and time to sit in my body — a body made whole by the very medical care many now seek to ban.
When I was younger, this type of joy eluded me. I carried around the weight of being fractured inside myself. I didn’t have the tools to imagine a future because I was tormented by the absence of a map of who I was and could be. In my early 20s, I thankfully met other trans masculine people, learned about gender-affirming medical care and found my way to myself. Trans people often refer to gender-affirming medical care as “lifesaving.” For me, I can say, it gave me the life that I have.
It is not, in fact, a mystery, that increased visibility and acceptance lead to more people exploring and understanding their identity. Similar trends have been noted in numbers of out LGB youth after the legalization of marriage equality and the, “in the past it was harder to find information about and its treatment…. Currently, owing to media attention and the internet, it is easier to access information about our gender identity clinic, making the threshold lower to search for help.
Second, Brooks frames the medical conversation around this care as one in which “name-calling” and “bullying” prevent the reasoned assessment of evidence. Most of the examples given are anonymous or reference social media posts. This type of uncorroborated and hyperbolic suggestion of chilled discourse would not normally be sufficient forBy contrast, when the same claims were raised by the government’s proffered “experts” in trial over Arkansas’s ban on gender-affirming medical care for minors,.
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