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THE BATTLE FOR MODeRN 1923


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Here’s the thing about gen­der tran­si­tion, from your lo­cal non-bi­na­ry pal who re­al­ly should get on the pro­noun shift al­ready but aaaa anyway:

Stan­dards vary state by state. Typ­i­cal­ly, one needs two let­ters from two sep­a­rate health pro­fes­sion­als to get just hor­mone re­place­ment. Those pro­fes­sion­als are typ­i­cal­ly men­tal health pro­fes­sion­als who re­quire you see them for any­where be­tween two months and two years.

And at the end of that pe­ri­od, they can still just refuse to write your let­ter. In fact, there is no rea­son or oblig­a­tion for them to dis­close at the on­set that they nev­er write let­ters for any­one. You can spend  y e a r s  of your life jump­ing hoops for trans­pho­bic med­ical pro­fes­sion­als try­ing des­per­ate­ly to prove your ‘re­al­ness.’

Ac­tu­al surg­eries aren’t cov­ered by in­sur­ance, are ex­pen­sive, and also re­quire let­ters. Some have loop­holes, saw a thread in an afab group the oth­er day of peo­ple with com­pli­cat­ed feel­ings about get­ting top surg­eries they wouldn’t have had ac­cess to be­fore be­cause of can­cer. But gen­er­al­ly, it is mas­sive­ly gatekept.

Kids aren’t get­ting surg­eries. Some teenagers can’t even ac­cess hor­mones. One op­tion that seems to be by pro­fes­sion­als and trans peo­ple alike agreed on for youth is ba­si­cal­ly drugs that de­lay pu­ber­ty, blockers.

I’m go­ing to ad­mit that I un­der­stand this cat­e­go­ry of tran­si­tion care the least, and I can present only what I un­der­stand. They’ve been around for decades, and don’t seem to cause long term prob­lems. It just pre­vents the on­set of pu­ber­ty, and then when it’s out of ones sys­tem, pu­ber­ty starts.

Buys time to make de­ci­sions. And politi­cians and doc­tors fight­ing a cri­sis of im­pulse tran­si­tions that don’t fuck­ing ex­ist are go­ing to take that from a gen­er­a­tion or more of kids.

The moral of this post is AAAAAAAAA.

 

—mel­ony ppenosyne

Flom­mist Mel­ony Ppenosyne is a writer and weird artist type. In the last year alone, she’s trav­eled to Vir­ginia as a com­pet­ing poet, co-writ­ten a play on men­tal ill­ness that is present­ly be­ing pro­duced, and craft­ed a pub­lished es­say check­ing the priv­i­lege and scope of art gal­leries. Copy­right © 2019 Mel­ony Ppenosyne. Pic­tured: Ger­da and Einar We­gen­er, 1924, source.

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