<< The question becomes, for me, what would happen if the child already had some leanings to gender dysphoria in the first place? Imagine, then, the harm that could have been inflicted on my sisters if that child had embraced their change as a result of the accident. >>
I didn't understand this. Your sisters? Their change? Why would it harm them if the accident allowed the child to be the sex/gender he believed herself to be? The accident would certainly seem to benefit the child as it would force what might be a difficult decision to voluntarily make due to society's predjudices.
<< Tigger because the Aunt Jane stories are so caring, so fundamentally powerful in their characters that I can read them over and over again. For me, the interest is in the use of gender to teach, to grow. That the characters can come face to face with those challenges and become better is a wonderful message. Think about it. They say that breaking the static concepts of binary gender will help us become more complete. What a totally cool message. >>
I agree. Tigger allowed me to have Aunt Jane make a guest appearance in my Vaingirls story, "I'm Baaack!"
<< I can't help but feel envious of Tucker. >>
I think Tuck would be shocked, possibly appalled, that anyone could envy his life. As I commented here at BC about Tuck #103, Ellen has outdone Tennessee Williams as the master of the dysfunctional family.
I didn't understand this. Your sisters? Their change? Why would it harm them if the accident allowed the child to be the sex/gender he believed herself to be? The accident would certainly seem to benefit the child as it would force what might be a difficult decision to voluntarily make due to society's predjudices.
You missed the point Jezzi and that may be own fault. The harm wouldn't be to that child, it would be to the others that may not have felt the same way. Read the book I mentioned, it clearly demonstrates the potential for harm when a decision such is that is made without all the information.
In addition, the harm to the transgendered community, my "sisters" as it were, would also be immense. The situation of John/Joan was about the fundemental question of nature versus nurture in gender. John Money postulated that nurture was the key and, so, John became Joan as a baby. Had John been transgendered, there might have been the belief that people could be "nurtured" from transgenderism, in spite of nature. Despite the obvious methods of nurture, which we see as wholesome and loving, nurture can also take other forms. In that specific case it was attempts at behavioural modification. In the case of homosexuals, a long time ago, it was shock therapy.
In the end, it is much better for the health of GLBT people that nature proved stronger than nurture.
think Tuck would be shocked, possibly appalled, that anyone could envy his life. As I commented here at BC about Tuck #103, Ellen has outdone Tennessee Williams as the master of the dysfunctional family.
You didn't ask what I was envious of, you might be surprised. I could, of course, claim that my life was more dysfunctional, but that would be untrue. What I envy is really two things:
1. The opportunity of self.
2. The physical capability to carry it off.
Remember, too, that the story is not finished. I think Ellen loves Tucker too much to destroy him. Also, I wrote this article before recent events, so do bear in mind the state of Tucker nation at the time.
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