Just Asking Questions
pieces examine how transness has been pathologized as a medical disorder requiring a cure, or that one assimilate in effort to become “unclockable.” And ultimately, the case of people who move across gender assignations displaces the ongoingness of colonial classification systems. Those with an expressed disinterest in being “cured” of their presum... See more
J. Khadijah Abdurahman • Letter from the Editor on Medicine and the Body in Tech
why is it the case that suicide rates don’t change between pre- and post-op trans?
Douglas Murray • The Madness of Crowds
Although the research team had difficulty distinguishing the transcripts of those individuals recruited on the basis of their age and experience from those recruited on the basis of their inclusion in a marginalized group, they could reliably identify those interview transcripts belonging to sex therapists.
A. Dana Ménard • Magnificent Sex
She was trying to change things. I went to the library and started reading about midwifery, and it immediately connected with me, my desire to be part of the system but also wanting to transform the system.”
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
From a biblical-worldview perspective, it seems far more likely (albeit that it’s unpopular to say) that emotional and psychological distress stem from gender dysphoria, not from the failure to feel affirmed by one’s community.
Andrew T. Walker • God and the Transgender Debate: What does the Bible actually say about gender identity?
“Had they had the surgery?” my father asked and I tried to explain that the question is no longer allowed, that we accept people as they see themselves.