The level of apprehension I've seen regarding rejecting the framing that transness is an inborn medical condition best "treated" by "medically necessary care" is a bit frustrating, given how much that framing has been used to surveil us, gatekeep care, and leave us at the mercy of abusive doctors.
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There is no reason to discard this as *one* element of what transness can be: it's not exclusive of other elements, and the "downsides" can be opposed in their own right.
The fact that Medicaid means low-income Californians can afford FFS is a miracle, trans people should fight for a system like that
What we really need is to treat transition like pregnancy.
There's nothing medically wrong with being pregnant.
You're not ill.
But you need and deserve care.
And let's not forget how even white women's pregnancies are so often treated not as their own business but that of male politicians, doctors and religious zealots.
birth control *IS* HRT
i cannot see how "I am a weird broken person who needs to be medicalized" would be better
hard to say how much media played a role in the recent law being passed but there’s definitely an attitude here of “why should
i care?”
Be cognizant of that!
https://ellie.clifford.lol/blog/0017-civil-liberties-science/
what's more, making a rights based argument would be more salient—imo—in a country where other such arguments are commonly made already