An important part of transition was accepting my right to self determination, even when counter to the expectations of society. My body belongs to me. Now, the president says the opposite. My body is not mine, it’s the state’s. That to rob the state of control is dishonorable, if not criminal.
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They would not say it’s the state’s, perhaps instead more nebulously the culture’s or America’s, but the state is the blunt hammer they have employed to enforce gender conformity and function.
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What’s been frustrating is that, for me, the counter seems obvious. That in America, the right to pursue happiness invokes individualistic privileges which includes a right to bodily autonomy. But outside of trans people, I rarely see this line of support. Instead sympathy is evoked.
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Sympathy wrapped in pathological and medical determination to be legitimized. That trans people are in need of care for their condition that prevents them from otherwise being “normal”. Pathologization that opened the door to conversion therapists and the rejection of supporting science regardless.
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That makes me wonder as a society we actually believe in autonomy. Seems as though we are quick to find caveats to undermine it, and slow to support.
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