The arrival of medical transition is just like, you know, a threshold that is crossed that you can never go back to. And so for trans people who came into their understandings of themselves before there was such a thing as medical transition, yeah, a lot of them were like, whatever, I don't care. For me, it's transition or death, and I will defend it to my death.
Featuring Jules Gill-Peterson on Histories of the Transgender Child. Amid this right-wing reaction, a discussion of the history of trans medicine and trans children—and also trans politics more generally.
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