Puberty must be about choice if we are to abolish oppression
Puberty must be about choice if we are to abolish oppression
yo, one thing about actually abolishing oppression towards us trans people: it requires not putting any specific puberty above another. All puberties are permanent, not just trans ones. We have the ability to sit every person down before puberty and talk them through what it entails, and then let them choose what exactly they want to go through. Making it an explicit choice places trans and cis people into the same situation.
Even with zero medical barriers to transition once someone realizes they are trans, the social barrier of what you are "expected" to be is an issue, for multiple reasons. People who want to make big changes are often questioned and forced to prove that what they want is what they “actually want”, because it deviates from what is expected. People who deviate in smaller ways are punished in their own ways, with those deviations being treated as mistakes or failures, because another major role can't be easily assumed. They are pushed to drop everything that is not perfectly aligned with the role to not be constantly torn apart. We have the technology to provide agency, not allowing its use is oppression. The only way to abolish the hierarchy around puberty is to abolish expectations around puberty.
If you think a child doesn’t have the ability to decide what puberty they want to go through, forcing them into a random one isn’t better. If they can’t say no, then they definitely can’t say yes. People will always know themselves better than others do.
yo? Artificial puberty is a luxury. Artificial puberty can also be healthcare for some people, but again, healthcare is a luxury, and is not guaranteed.
People will always know themselves better than others do.
Sometimes yes? I bet some people think themselves to be "stable geniuses" when they're clearly deluded creeps. I'm also reminded of The Yellow Wallpaper, Available to read here which depicts the internal struggle of a woman with her worsening mental illness. Her autonomy is stripped not only as married woman in the 1800's, but as an ill person who is literally assumed to be incapable of making her own decisions. It is not only horrifying but phenomenologically significant, and socially relevant, I recommend this short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
We have the ability to sit every person down before puberty and talk them through what it entails, and then let them choose what exactly they want to go through.
I'm not sure this is true. We might be able to do this for first-world children whose parents have jobs and insurance.
I think it's wonderful that you're expressing yourself and trying to make a better world.
A child doesn't have the mental capacity and proper knowledge to make potentially life damaging unchangeable decisions such as this.
They should instead be focused on being..a kid and not having these weird topics forced upon them. Let them discover the world. Stop forcing your views on them.
Pre-seeding my condolences before the lemmings gang up on your comment for not going along with the agenda.