This entry from the transhealth website dates back to 2001 and it offers a very nice dissection of the now mostly debunked but still controversial AGP theory and how this transgender woman could care two cents about it. People who have been trying to marginalize the experience of gynephilic transwomen have pushed for the stigmatizing idea that they are actually perverted men. Well this soul, who couldn't give a hoot either way, isn't buying any of it and her frankness at times had me chuckling to myself as I read her posting. If we ever met I would give her a hug for seeing through the BS but mostly for being herself: "About a year ago I was reading on Dr. Anne Lawrence’s site about a new theory of the origin of trans called “autogynephilia.” This theory asserts that many trans women—and transsexual women in particular—desire reassignment surgery because they are eroticizing the feminization of their bodies. The first thing that struck me about it, of course, was t
Thoughts and ideas (plus a little gender theory) from an intellectually curious transgender person. - Being trans is not a choice but what to do with that knowledge just might be
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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