I remember getting into a debate with someone over, in particular, the surgeries and hormones that trans people use. When I brought up steroids, hormone creams, progesterone in cis-women and cis-men, this person got pissed, even more when I mentioned that many women and men have cosmetic surgery. In other words, he had no issue with cisgender people using these to make themselves look different or more comfortable in their body, or for their health or mental health. He just hated transgender people. It's disgusting. I'm Intersex, and this person had no issue with the forced corrective surgeries forced on me as a child. I eventually stopped speaking to him. Every once in a while I see his Facebook newsfeed, and it's almost always about right-wing propaganda.
Every single bill attempting to ban affirming care for trans kids also bans surgeries that are not even being performed on trans kids, but has an explicit exemption for the surgeries that are done on intersex babies & children. It's almost as though the thing they're really so opposed to is not surgery, but consent, at least as it applies to 'the other'.
Interestingly, when I've told transphobes spreading FUD about surgeries on trans children on Twitter that if that's whaat they're worried about they should be campaigning in support of intersex people, not against trans people ... they've just stopped responding.
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Every single bill attempting to ban affirming care for trans kids also bans surgeries that are not even being performed on trans kids, but has an explicit exemption for the surgeries that are done on intersex babies & children. It's almost as though the thing they're really so opposed to is not surgery, but consent, at least as it applies to 'the other'.
Interestingly, when I've told transphobes spreading FUD about surgeries on trans children on Twitter that if that's whaat they're worried about they should be campaigning in support of intersex people, not against trans people ... they've just stopped responding.