i think that the problem with Zucker is that he's very good at selling his lies and snake oil to the general public. he's excellent at making, say, "genital normalization" sound like a wonderful idea. now, you and i know that means "non-consensual surgery on intersex children", but...to the general public, he can pretty much pull it off with a straight face.
i find it kind of unamusing that at the same time he's advocating butchering intersex children, he says that a child/teenager who's trans can't really be, blah blah blah, the spectrum of gender should be wider, blah blah blah...
um listen up world, i'm 31. (most of aesmael's friends list is all "omg sup methuselah!") anyways, socially accepted gender roles have continuously widened since, oh, the turn of the previous century, and in my lifetime they've widened in small but noticeable ways. guess what? trans people still exist. huh.
in the meantime, Dr. Zucker is an adult cisgendered white dude who is obsessed with Barbie dolls and takes it upon himself to conflate race and gender identity. yeah. “If a 5-year-old black kid came into the clinic and said he wanted to be white, would we endorse that?” he told me. “I don’t think so. What we would want to do is say, ‘What’s going on with this kid that’s making him feel that it would be better to be white?’”
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Date: 2008-11-30 15:48 (UTC)From:i find it kind of unamusing that at the same time he's advocating butchering intersex children, he says that a child/teenager who's trans can't really be, blah blah blah, the spectrum of gender should be wider, blah blah blah...
um listen up world, i'm 31. (most of
in the meantime, Dr. Zucker is an adult cisgendered white dude who is obsessed with Barbie dolls and takes it upon himself to conflate race and gender identity. yeah. “If a 5-year-old black kid came into the clinic and said he wanted to be white, would we endorse that?” he told me. “I don’t think so. What we would want to do is say, ‘What’s going on with this kid that’s making him feel that it would be better to be white?’”
*headdesk*