Poor Jazz Jenning had a homophobic dad and a mom who kept peace in the familty by "transing away the gay". Your flat-out assertion that "kids like Jazz Jennings really are “born that way"" is truly shocking. There is no evidence for this at all.
Kids mess around with gender norms (which differ from society to society). There is zero evide…
Poor Jazz Jenning had a homophobic dad and a mom who kept peace in the familty by "transing away the gay". Your flat-out assertion that "kids like Jazz Jennings really are “born that way"" is truly shocking. There is no evidence for this at all.
Kids mess around with gender norms (which differ from society to society). There is zero evidence that this results from some sort of specific congenital condition.
IMO, we should all be totally fine with messing around with gender norms (whatever they happen to be at that time and place), but should hold firm to two specific principles:
1) NO medicalization: no puberty blockers, no cross-sex hormones, no surgeries before the legal age of consent.
2) NO violation of single-sex spaces, no matter how good your medicalized cosplay is at fooling people into believing that you are something that you are not.
Poor Jazz Jenning had a homophobic dad and a mom who kept peace in the familty by "transing away the gay". Your flat-out assertion that "kids like Jazz Jennings really are “born that way"" is truly shocking. There is no evidence for this at all.
Kids mess around with gender norms (which differ from society to society). There is zero evidence that this results from some sort of specific congenital condition.
IMO, we should all be totally fine with messing around with gender norms (whatever they happen to be at that time and place), but should hold firm to two specific principles:
1) NO medicalization: no puberty blockers, no cross-sex hormones, no surgeries before the legal age of consent.
2) NO violation of single-sex spaces, no matter how good your medicalized cosplay is at fooling people into believing that you are something that you are not.