restricting medical care
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No matter how fervently we shout, judge, or legislate, children’s bodies will still have been affected by all the chemicals to which they were subjected.
Children deserve care that helps their bodies match their brains … especially since our cavalier treatment of these children’s environment has probably helped cause the mismatch.
Andrew Solomon, androgens, biological sex, chemical exposure, chromosomal sex, David Cole, David French, developmental biology, discrimination, endocrine disrupting chemicals, endocrine disruptors, exposure to endocrine disruptors, Far from the Tree, fetal exposure, gender, gender affirming care, gender affirming care ban, gender legislation, health, hormone replacement therapy, hormone therapy, hormones, HRT, intersex, Jim Sinclair, legislation, lifestyle, medical care for minors, parental rights, patient rights, Performance All The Way Down, poetry, puberty blockers, restricting medical care, Richard Prum, Ross Gay, sex determination, sexuality, SRY, Supreme Court, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, Tennessee, testosterone, Thank You, transgender, transphobic legislation, urgency of medical care, wellness
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On urgency and gender-affirming medical care.
Sometimes, young people are right to be infuriated by our lack of urgency.
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