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It is good to see BC back. Thank you, to everyone working on that.

There is a good article in the New Yorker rethinking the basis for trans rights. It’s currently not behind a paywall. Freedom of Sex

The article makes many interesting points, like this one:

It is good and right for advocates to fight back against the liberal fixation on the health risks of sex-changing care or the looming possibility of detransition. But it is also true that where there is freedom, there will always be regret. In fact, there cannot be regret without freedom. Regret is freedom projected into the past. So it is one thing to regret the outcome of a decision, but it is a very different thing to regret the freedom to decide, which most people would not trade for the world. If we are to recognize the rights of trans kids, we will also have to accept that, like us, they have a right to the hazards of their own free will. This does not mean shooting testosterone into every toddler who looks at a football. But if children are too young to consent to puberty blockers, then they are definitely too young to consent to puberty, which is a drastic biological upheaval in its own right. Yet we let this happen every day — and not without casualties.

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Blather

People use too many words. I try to ignore it.

I agree with the author’s point. Young people have access to contraceptives. Some use them, some don’t. There are consequences, and, for some, regrets. But we don’t ban contraceptives, or require them, because some people will regret their choices. Why should puberty blockers be treated differently?

Astrid Eriksson