Evan Urquhart
The personal account of Evan Urquhart of Assigned Media (assignedmedia.org), your trans news source.
I'd still rather be playing pinball.
- Let's take seriously, for a moment, the concern that gender nonconformity was being medicalized, causing girls to be inappropriately placed on testosterone. If you believed this, genuinely believed it, how would you respond to learning a growing number of such young people identify as nonbinary?
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View full threadEhhhhhhh - *some* of the trans community supports us.
- Certainly some trans ppl are shitty abt this!
- If you're transmasc - Can't you just be a masculine lesbian? If you're butch - Can't you just be a lesbian without being masc? If you're femme - Can't you just try dating men? If you're bi - Can't you just date men exclusively?
- The throughline is that they don't want any of us to exist.
- I'm AFAB. When I came out as nonbinary, I got a lot of people saying "Can't you just be a gender nonconforming woman?" And let me tell you, they were the same people who got mad at me for being a gender nonconforming woman before I was out.
- Of course!
- This is one of the central unexamined tensions in the moral panic over trans youth - something I'd argue is the clearest evidence we have that it IS a moral panic and there's nothing of substance to it.
- The statistics DO show many more young people identifying outside of their assigned gender. They DO NOT show that most people who identify outside of their assigned gender are medicalized, in youth or in adulthood.
- But, instead of showing relief, instead of celebrating gender nonconforming people being themselves without any medical transition needed, the same people who were so alarmed about overmedicalization also insist that NB people identify as their birth-assigned sex. 🤔🤔🤔🤔
- And, what's more, the trans community - who were supposedly telling every boy who played with dolls and every girl who climbed trees that they needed to transition - ARE celebrating and supporting nonbinary people's right to be gender nonconforming without medical transition. Curious, isn't it?
- Logically, this would seem like it should cause great relief among those who were concerned about inappropriate testosterone use. Gender nonconforming people can simply be gender nonconforming with no need for medical steps to validate this, which was the thing everyone was so worried about, right?
