While I agree that GID as a psych diagnosis is not really supportive of the wide variety of gender identities outside the gender binary, and while I agree that full GRS shouldn't be the only option available because why shouldn't someone be genderqueer or androgynous or any of a thousand other identities and modify their bodies in ways that actually fit their identities, and while I agree that the way gender identity is seen at the moment isn't always actually helpful for people whose bodies, socially determined genders and personal gender identities don't cluster together closely enough to prevent dissonance and distress...
Also, if the allegations about this chap are true, he is plain rude, not to mention being sadly in need of education on how to actually listen to the people you claim to be supporting.
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purpletigron) wrote2009-10-11 12:15 pm
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While I agree that GID as a psych diagnosis is not really supportive of the wide variety of gender identities outside the gender binary, and while I agree that full GRS shouldn't be the only option available because why shouldn't someone be genderqueer or androgynous or any of a thousand other identities and modify their bodies in ways that actually fit their identities, and while I agree that the way gender identity is seen at the moment isn't always actually helpful for people whose bodies, socially determined genders and personal gender identities don't cluster together closely enough to prevent dissonance and distress...
... the aims of the rally all seem to me to guarantee - if realised - to actually deny transgendered, transsexual and intersex people the freedom to self-definition and access to appropriate treatment if desired (well, even more so than is already the case - see the news about the NHS PCT that refused a trans woman in the midst of GRS the right to breast surgery because she doesn't "need" to have breasts, and they refuse surgery to women unless there's a real "need"?) .
And that is not cool.
Also, if the allegations about this chap are true, he is plain rude, not to mention being sadly in need of education on how to actually listen to the people you claim to be supporting.