Rick Powell
@rickpowellcdmx
Cook and English teacher. Risky writer. Lover of beer, dudes, and movies.
Rick Powell
@rickpowellcdmx
Cook and English teacher. Risky writer. Lover of beer, dudes, and movies.
“I had two guys from Trinidad and Tobago and the Congo, and they wanted a low-profile ceremony. We went to the hospital and mentioned that they were getting married, and everyone started clapping,” Leti concludes. “I mean even in the taxi, and the taxista put like a cumbia wedding song on. I don’t think there’s any kind of discrimination at all.”
When the Dutch began treating “young transsexuals” in the 1990s, multiple clinicians, including a psychologist and a psychiatrist, rigorously evaluated them over long periods of time. The patients were required to meet the criteria for gender identity disorder, live in supportive families, be psychologically stable, and have suffered from “lifelong
... See moreThe gender-affirming model is the opposite of careful.
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review of The Message