🧵Valerie Van-Dieman should not have medically transitioned, but they’ve already had vaginoplasty and it’s too late. We have to look at what went wrong, reinstitute medical safeguarding, and build a system willing to say, “No this is not what gender dysphoria looks like.”
This last year we have seen a radical shift in the public anti-trans rhetoric, seeing less attempts to justify attacks on our rights with palatable lenses like protecting children, and more moves like Kansas' attack on all trans people based on nothing but hate. Check out my newest piece in Slate!