Thanks Rebekah. It would be good to understand how this issue became so prevalent and entrenched so quickly. I know there are activists pushing for this but how did they gain so much political support and momentum?
Thanks Rebekah. It would be good to understand how this issue became so prevalent and entrenched so quickly. I know there are activists pushing for this but how did they gain so much political support and momentum?
The trans activists you mean? I don't have a catch-all answer. It's not really my beat - my interest in covering this story was primarily the censorship angle as I have been covering this for some time. But I have been reading the development of the trans phenomenon with great interest for several years. Resources I've found particularly useful include PUBLIC's coverage (Shellenberger and co), Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier, the Witch Trials podcast by Megan Phelps-Roper, and reading first person accounts of people on all sides of the debate - happy transitioners, sad transitioners, and detransitioners.
There are obviously lots of theories. Young girls symptom pooling (I experienced this too in my teens, as I shared in my Recovery post), the industry push because it's so profitable, the influence of social media and social contagion, and the historical pattern of hysterical and psuedoscientific 'medicine' movements that we humans seem to fall prey to again and again and again. Plus, you could consider the impact of the transhumanism movement - if humans are cyborgs, why shouldn't they change their gender and/or sex at will? Complex, and I don't have the answer. I'm still thinking about it.
Thanks Rebekah. It would be good to understand how this issue became so prevalent and entrenched so quickly. I know there are activists pushing for this but how did they gain so much political support and momentum?
The trans activists you mean? I don't have a catch-all answer. It's not really my beat - my interest in covering this story was primarily the censorship angle as I have been covering this for some time. But I have been reading the development of the trans phenomenon with great interest for several years. Resources I've found particularly useful include PUBLIC's coverage (Shellenberger and co), Irreversible Damage by Abigail Shrier, the Witch Trials podcast by Megan Phelps-Roper, and reading first person accounts of people on all sides of the debate - happy transitioners, sad transitioners, and detransitioners.
There are obviously lots of theories. Young girls symptom pooling (I experienced this too in my teens, as I shared in my Recovery post), the industry push because it's so profitable, the influence of social media and social contagion, and the historical pattern of hysterical and psuedoscientific 'medicine' movements that we humans seem to fall prey to again and again and again. Plus, you could consider the impact of the transhumanism movement - if humans are cyborgs, why shouldn't they change their gender and/or sex at will? Complex, and I don't have the answer. I'm still thinking about it.