Oh, your ribs are popping out and you can’t breathe? Well try this other binder.
Frankie cries when her ribs “pop out” when walking: “I just can’t breathe properly,” spine kyphosed. She can’t exercise, 36D breasts bound for 5 years. Dr Ronx reacts like a child,then “I’ve a wide selection of binders”with MORE reinforcement. No exam of the damage already caused https://t.co/W0ha2pnFDvpic.twitter.com/fRrVnaHXrj
— Rebel Ada. Authoritarian extremist. (@DearRebelAda) March 24, 2024
It’s just always struck me as odd that when it comes to justifying “gender affirming care”, people talk about happiness rather than health. Since when is happiness doctors’ realm?
For USAIANS, probably stems from the time their terrorists revolutionaries wrote “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Two religious statements in a single sentence of the Nation’s founding document.
Baby steps, then, from the pursuit of happiness to happiness at all costs. It’s probably why the USA is such a hotbed of self-help, TED talks, and Eastern Mysticism blended with the profit motive.
It’s just always struck me as odd that when it comes to justifying “gender affirming care”, people talk about happiness rather than health. Since when is happiness doctors’ realm?
Ditto the idea of “trans joy” or “trans euphoria.” That’s a pretty lofty expectation. I would find a constant state of “joy” or “euphoria” exhausting; in others I would find it phony and suspicious. Sometimes you feel like crap, sometimes just meh. And that’s okay. Anticipating/expecting “joy” or “euphoria” sounds like setting oneself up for failure and disappointment. Given that becoming the sex one is not is already unattainable, this would be an additional burden that is not going to be very conducive to mental health. If you’re always chasing the next dose of wrong sex hormones, or the next “procedure” for a lasting, heightened, positive emotional state you’re “supposed” to be feeling, you might feel compelled to feign it in order to justify your choice of this path to yourself and others, thereby adding the cherry of guilt for going off-script to the whole sundae of dismay.
How is chest binding any different from the poor Chinese women getting their feet bound?
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/lasting-damage-foot-binding/606439/
Hot take: maybe the appropriate thing for doctors to maximize is patient health.
You’d think, wouldn’t you.
I’ve just seen a damning stat from the people who put on yesterday’s conference. Maximizing patient health not prioritized quite enough.
It’s just always struck me as odd that when it comes to justifying “gender affirming care”, people talk about happiness rather than health. Since when is happiness doctors’ realm?
For USAIANS, probably stems from the time their
terroristsrevolutionaries wrote “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”Two religious statements in a single sentence of the Nation’s founding document.
Baby steps, then, from the pursuit of happiness to happiness at all costs. It’s probably why the USA is such a hotbed of self-help, TED talks, and Eastern Mysticism blended with the profit motive.
Ditto the idea of “trans joy” or “trans euphoria.” That’s a pretty lofty expectation. I would find a constant state of “joy” or “euphoria” exhausting; in others I would find it phony and suspicious. Sometimes you feel like crap, sometimes just meh. And that’s okay. Anticipating/expecting “joy” or “euphoria” sounds like setting oneself up for failure and disappointment. Given that becoming the sex one is not is already unattainable, this would be an additional burden that is not going to be very conducive to mental health. If you’re always chasing the next dose of wrong sex hormones, or the next “procedure” for a lasting, heightened, positive emotional state you’re “supposed” to be feeling, you might feel compelled to feign it in order to justify your choice of this path to yourself and others, thereby adding the cherry of guilt for going off-script to the whole sundae of dismay.
“MORE reinforcement” could pretty much be the TRA motto.