On So, Jun 4 2023 at 10:17:21 -0000, SingletonW Lernais <sngltnw@gmail.com> wrote:
- promoting the use of hormon blockers and surgery to "help" allegedly dysphoric minors modify their body -- almost always rendering them infertile; - refusing the acknowledge evidence that gender dysphoria might admit of a variety of treatments -- not just surgery and hormon blockers (context: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230208-sweden-puts-brakes-on-treatme...)
This is as much a social as a medical issue, but...
- bullying lesbians into have relationships with men (context: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385)
Calling trans women "men" does not help the cause socially whatsoever. Puberty blockers are an interesting subject, and I feel like you are missing out by not having a look at the research, for example [1] (which includes notes about impact of fertility, though most of the research here has been done on kids younger than 13), [2] (about using hormone blockers + hormones at later stages, past the subjects being minors, having a larger impact on fertility) or [3] (psychological impact of no transition, social transition and social transition with puberty blockers). In terms of surgeries, Sweden had a pretty cool study about the subject too [4]! There is in general not really enough research done about the subject though, that was also the conclusion of Swedish government and why they decided to take the step that they did, I'm sure blocking this field with a general ban won't have an impact on it though.
Because of this I'd argue that the flag is as tainted politically as the Confederate flag in the U.S, and thus no longer a suitable symbol for expressing solidarity with vulnerable minorities.
The queer community had to deal with much worse thrown its way, most of the terminology in those circles is derived from slurs for a reason after all. Using controversial words and symbols was always the case because it has helped spread the word of the issue on a much larger scale, because those have been the words and symbols other people have used for the community too. Don't act surprised that this is still a thing, since clearly people still manage to call trans women "men" on the openSUSE mailing lists. LCP [Jake] https://lcp.world/ [1] https://academic.oup.com/jes/article/3/5/965/5421014 [2] [3] https://academic.oup.com/jsm/article-abstract/12/11/2206/6980064 [4] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262734734_An_Analysis_of_All_Applic...