To “defend” trans care is always to further prop up what is already an extremely privileged and gatekept system that keeps countless trans people from access—they’re going to say we’re evil no matter how it actually works so why not fight for something that’s actually liberatory?
Instead of arguing just trans kids have access to blockers to avoid traumatic puberty, we say all kids should be on blockers until they’re “sure” they’re cis or trans. Or we just let trans kids go through the puberty they want at the same time as their peers.
Instead of defending trans care as a “parents choice”, we admit parents who deny their kids access to care are committing abuse, and that the Family is the biggest site for the harm of queer / trans kids. There’s a reason there are so many countless houseless queer / trans youth!
Instead of defending gender affirming surgeries for their long gatekeeping processes, we make them as accessible as any other type of surgery. We demand bodily autonomy in all things for all people cis and trans, and stop submitting to the paternalistic logic of the clinic.
The frame of what we see as possible is always being set by people who want us to disappear entirely, so we argue for the preservation of the oppressive systems we already have. We are taught to treat the most limited horizons as our salvation, instead of the expanses we deserve.
We must not let the many rich questions of trans life and futures be set by “just asking questions” sycophants and straightforward fascists—regardless of their identities or institutional positions, we owe them nothing. Trans liberation now!
None of this is new / special and ppl way smarter than me (@gp_jls, first and foremost!!) have been already, but so many of us are still caught up defending the logics of systems meant to administrate our lives instead of giving us meaningful access to our own futures. Stop it 🤗
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