Re: 'Queering' puberty?

What you advocate is not genuine change. What you advocate is lifelong dependence of unhappy people on drugs to relieve their unhappiness. And this just happens to dovetail with the need for capitalism to find fresh vistas of profit to exploit. Please explain, where is the change in that? I am in favour of mitigation as well, and in some circumstances this might involve puberty blockers. Whether it does so or not depends, for me, on the expertise of doctors in a non-capitalist context. I am not opposed to drugs when these are in the medical interests of the patients. What I am opposed to is their promotion over other forms of treatment by those for whom the interests of patients plays a distinct second fiddle to pecuniary considerations. I don't agree that imagining a different society is "pie in the sky idealism". On the contrary, it is America that is historically unusual, even as it has sought to spread its neuroses around the world. My God, Pharmakon, imagining something other than contemporary America is not "pie in the sky idealism". I do not believe I am guilty of "standard issue panic over sexual difference". Please point to where I have evinced "panic over sexual difference". This is pure rhetoric; nothing more.