gyrovont

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by gyrovont 4y ago
Again, that is a wildly inaccurate reinterpretation of what she was actually talking about. When criticizing what someone has said, please consider addressing their actual viewpoint, rather than some fantasy you've invented.
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by gyrovont 4y ago
If you haven't already, please educate yourself with Joyce's rebuttals of these false claims: https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/a-wild-ride
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by gyrovont 4y ago
No it's not, and no she isn't. She's talking about reducing the number of transitions. As in, discouraging or limiting the medicinal and surgical interventions that people who are unhappy with their sex sometimes pursue. She
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by gyrovont 4y ago
She is not a eugenics advocate. That is a truly nonsensical summary of her viewpoint.
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by gyrovont 4y ago
It's a very good read. Helen Joyce's Trans and Kathleen Stock's Material Girls are also excellent critiques of this movement.
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by gyrovont 4y ago
Several detransitioners have claimed that being prescribed cross-sex hormones took just one or two appointments. Any previous safeguarding of this process seems to have been greatly diminished in recent years. Regarding surgery, there is a
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by gyrovont 4y ago
It may not have even been a conscious decision as such. Being constantly bombarded with messages of this is what a woman should be may well have this effect subconsciously.
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by gyrovont 4y ago
Could be, though neither of these explain quite why it is girls in particular who are attempting to identify out of their sex, in a much larger ratio than boys. Perhaps one root cause is that girls are uncomfortably sexualised much more tha