Puberty blockers were the position of compromise with bigots.
The lesson we should learn here is not to compromise with bigots.
Give trans kids cross-sex hormones.
I understand your instincts here, but my dad is going to read the nyt opinion page every day whether it’s filled with the words Jamelle Bouie or twenty Pamela Paul clones. He’s not going to read Jamelle’s writing somewhere else and neither will millions of other dads.
Holding a black man who writes EXCELLENT and helpful essays about democracy responsible for the acts of a heinous and hateful white woman so powerful at the NYT she was the *BOOKS EDITOR* for like a decade before becoming an opinion writer says everything about you and nothing about him.
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Many people are going to feel the need to defend trans care for adults using the libraries of published evidence supporting its safety and efficacy--which is fine, but the actual standard to uphold is "it's my body and I fucking said so"
Talking a lot this week about restrictions on care for trans adults and what strikes me from a rhetoric standpoint is the complete lack of pretense at good faith. No stated interest, no fetal life. Just raw power exerted over someone else's body.