Language matters
I am trying to comprehend why many in the male to female gender variant community continue to employ the term crossdresser when female to male persons who do the same thing are not so labeled. If women aren't "crossdressing" when they wear traditionally male clothing, why is a male bodied person doing so when wearing a skirt? I tend to personally see this term as slightly anachronistic and dismissive rather than helpful since there are a series of societal connotations surrounding it which aren't generally positive or helpful. If we are going to move towards a deeper level of understanding and tolerance of all types of behaviour (no matter the percentage of the population which engages in it), we need to update the lexicon as we have done in many other areas of social science. Hence if we are going to less stigmatize a behaviour which has always existed and which occurs with much more frequency than transsexualism, a name change might be in order. Perhaps as a startin
Um, this mother was given expert advice, and ignored it. She decided to bypass the puberty blocking stage, which is designed precisely to allow children to live one way WITHOUT going through puberty one way or another to help them decide who they really are. She dosed him with her own hormone replacement therapy regimen, because she was attempting to stunt his growth. She didn't want him to be too tall.
ReplyDeleteThe child has my sympathies, as does the mom in some ways, but this is not a cautionary tale about how the medical establishment is done no something wrong, which is how this media piece is presenting it. Especially with that doctor saying he's goIn against the grain and saying statistically kids will just grow out of this.
The more society opens up and allows people to express themselves, noting there is nothing wrong with taking one's time or even not being sure, the better off we all will be. But this story really should be about how parents ought not to medicate their children on their own. For any condition.
you are correct in this observation Caryn. The mother should not have permitted estrogen ingestion but instead bought her son time through delay of puberty through blockers. Good catch...
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