re: #123 The Ghost of a Flea

Trans youth will no longer be prescribed puberty blockers, NHS England says

(from the 12th)

Puberty blockers solve the moral panic about kids with wrong-bodies being dangerous to their peers, but it does so in a way that keeps the window of transition open, and is therefore unacceptable to people that believe, implicitly or explicitly, that people’s bodies are not their own.

Kids have to become what their parents want, unless their parents are too weird, in which case kids have to become what “normal” third parties want.

Must like abortion access, the modern synthesis of how to control others involves demolishing all of the options, then declaring that there was no other choice. We’re winding back to the old atrocities of eugenics, but mediating layers of casuistry.

Ghost, this is something bothers me so freaking much. I imagine myself being forced through the wrong puberty against my will and how horrifying that would be. At that point, the damage is done. If I’m a trans girl, I have now lost the ability to “pass” without expensive surgeries and I will face a lifetime of harassment and possible violence. It seems so vital to these kids to allow them early intervention.

Denying people this chance when it matters the most is cruel.