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Non-surgical treatment is still treatment, and often viewed as some sort of gateway step towards such things as surgery. Even something as insubstantial as "so
by zozbot234 3y ago
Non-surgical treatment is still treatment, and often viewed as some sort of gateway step towards such things as surgery. Even something as insubstantial as "social transition" is still thoroughly medicalized as a matter of basic worldview.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Even something as insubstantial as "social transition" is still inherently medicalized as a matter of basic worldview This redefines medicine to include literally all human activity, from sartorial preferences to how one crosses their legs. So sure, if we render this term meaningless we can apply it.
- zozbot234 3y agoIt's not us redefining "sartorial preferences or how one crosses their legs" as such matters, but those who push the whole worldview of "gender identity" as something relevant to these things and otherwise unchangeable. Toy aisles in retail stores are supposed to be non-gendered, but kids are being told in school that if they like "gender discordant" toys this means that their "inborn gender" is not the one they think it is and they must seek proper "reassignment".
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> kids are being told in school that if they like "gender discordant" toys this means that their "inborn gender" is not the one they think it is and they must seek proper "reassignment" Source? For what it’s worth, I’d call that hard leftist. Not liberal. In the same way I’d call someone insisting on traditional gender labels right wing, not merely conservative. (The latter applying that labelling preference to one’s own children, only.) And returning to the proximate point, none of that is medicine.