Re: Weasel words

So trans people are demanding "features" their bodies were "never designed to have" and blaming a "manufacturing error"? Doesn't that assume people are "designed" and "manufactured" with a specific intention (by whom? God, obviously, for LA and Django, but I didn't think you were in that camp)? And that trans people are defective in their failure to conform to that intention? (Again, consistent with LA or Django's apparent desire that trans people simply not exist -- though, like us, they always have.) My understanding of trans is that is exemplary of normal human diversity, just like boylove. It's how some people are. Diversity -- ours, theirs -- should be, to the extent possible, accommodated, not stigmatized. I thought you were more or less in that camp, not in the "trans as mental disorder" camp. Of course, in adopting the whole "gender dysphoria" approach, the ruling I cited jumps right into the dominant mental disorder narrative. But that's exactly why they can't accept your distinction between "congenital medical conditions" and trans as a basis for determining what is and isn't covered medical treatment. They are bound by whatever the medical establishment decides is the standard of care, and currently the medical establishment treats "gender dysphoria" as a congenital medical condition for which, at least in some cases, surgical interventions are the accepted standard of care. This approach is open to critique, and I join you (I think?) in critiquing it. But if we abandon it, we have to address what other basis for providing the desired interventions we will adopt. Prohibit them? Allow them, but only for those who can afford them (i.e., make them uninsurable, or insurable only at the discretion of the insurer)? Or provide them on some more equitable basis? The Cass Review apparently does not seek to limit these interventions for adults (at least those over 25), only for kids. But this is in the context of the UK's socialized system of health care, a system in which the whole question of "insurance" (and "bilking your... insurance") does not even arise. hugzu ;-p