2026-04-25 11:07 UTC
it was intended to be a temperaroy safety measure to make sure they could help as many as possible because of backlash to Christine Jorgensen. But by tightening the criteria, it lead to trans women passing notes on how to pass that criteria, which lead to an endless cold war between both sides passed down from doctor to doctor and trans girl to trans girl.
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@siege@masto.hackers.town 2026-04-25 11:12
What was a temporary measure was never lifted, and because of how poorly regarded the trans medical field is, the quality of what sort of doctor would choose willingling to go into it lead to a downward trajectory from medical mavericks looking to be at the edge of modern science to those with saviour complexes, those with sexual daliances, and those who felt the trans menace at the gate needed to be contained How Sex Changed by Joanne Meyerowitz is probably the best insight into the history
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@riley@toot.cat 2026-04-25 19:13
@siege That's a remarkaby good-faith-assuming interpretation.