Pathologizing youth agency

Nina Power has a piece at Compact Magazine about the Cass Review (linked below). Power thinks that "trans ideology" is pathologizing puberty. But she is pretty explicit that kids don't know what is best for them and decisionmaking about their sexual development needs to be firmly taken out of their hands. Are kids subject to malign influence from peers, parents, and the medical establishment? Of course they are. Does that mean we should support government when it seeks to overrule the choices young people are making about their own bodies? I don't think so. If we can't as a movement (or, if you prefer, a potential movement?) strongly support youth agency, and especially in matters affecting sexuality, we are abandoning the most basic principles behind the foundation of NAMBLA nearly 50 years ago. hugzu ;-p Thesis Antithesis Synthesis Norm Adjacency Sex is good Rape culture Feminism Gender Sex workers Boys decide Grooming Youth liberation Age Transboys/Tomboys No sex police The nanny state Anarchism Identity RSOs/SVPs Click on the table for a larger version and brief explanation (https site) Nina Power, The Trans Reckoning Is Here (Compact Magazine) [@nonymouse] [Guardster] [Proxify] [Anonymisierungsdienst]