Free flight as self-expression and as a higher project. Managing risk. Gender euphoria and the responsibility of coming out. Learning to stop learning—and to love the infinite game.
On one hand, I feel this is out of the realm of my personal experience, especially because I don’t have children of my own.
However, if you’re just asking my opinion, my take is that adults can do whatever they want, and that children often think that they know what they want, but it’s better to leave such a major decision until at least the commonly agreed-upon age of adulthood.
If you're interested in this subject and would like another perspective from some folks with lived experience, this podcast by Nina Paley, lesbian (?) self-described TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) and Corinna Cohn, a transwoman who now speaks out against early medical transition, is exceptional. They are both super honest, funny and fun to listen to. https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-93-how-to-speak-how-to-listen-and-how-to-comply/
OMG! I knew I trans at age five-equating gay acceptance with hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery. Certainly there are times when medical intervention might be necessary, but how about focus on accepting people as they are naturally born? I draw the line at breast implants. There has been a few lonely nights I wish I had a set of my own. I have to admit though, Asian ladyboys really mess me up.
Hi John. Y'know—you can draw the line for yourself—but not for anyone else.
Over the course of my own life there are quite a few things that I used to think of as unacceptable, foreign, scary, and strange that I've since come to understand better—or at least in a way that I can accept as human. As we all are, very much so.
Another angle on this is that while I do have opinions about other people, my own opinions about others are far less interesting than my own experience with my own life.
The “line” was my attempt to inject humour. With respect to transitioning, what age is appropriate to draw one’s own line?
On one hand, I feel this is out of the realm of my personal experience, especially because I don’t have children of my own.
However, if you’re just asking my opinion, my take is that adults can do whatever they want, and that children often think that they know what they want, but it’s better to leave such a major decision until at least the commonly agreed-upon age of adulthood.
I agree. I’m going to hitch my wagon to Jordan Peterson’s take on the subject
If you're interested in this subject and would like another perspective from some folks with lived experience, this podcast by Nina Paley, lesbian (?) self-described TERF (trans exclusionary radical feminist) and Corinna Cohn, a transwoman who now speaks out against early medical transition, is exceptional. They are both super honest, funny and fun to listen to. https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-93-how-to-speak-how-to-listen-and-how-to-comply/
Will do, thanks
OMG! I knew I trans at age five-equating gay acceptance with hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery. Certainly there are times when medical intervention might be necessary, but how about focus on accepting people as they are naturally born? I draw the line at breast implants. There has been a few lonely nights I wish I had a set of my own. I have to admit though, Asian ladyboys really mess me up.
Hi John. Y'know—you can draw the line for yourself—but not for anyone else.
Over the course of my own life there are quite a few things that I used to think of as unacceptable, foreign, scary, and strange that I've since come to understand better—or at least in a way that I can accept as human. As we all are, very much so.
Another angle on this is that while I do have opinions about other people, my own opinions about others are far less interesting than my own experience with my own life.