I don't claim any expertise in this area, but I think challenging the appropriateness of the analogy is fairly straightforward.
1. Manning is voluntarily asking for hormone therapy. Obviously, that's different from any case where someone was coerced or pressured to receive therapy. 2. Manning is asking for therapy to help assume what feels like a natural state. That's the opposite of therapy to suppress what someone thinks is their natural state. 3. The bar of scrutiny should be much higher when someone is being pushed to "go with the grain." There is no big movement in the U.S. or anywhere else that I am aware of to push people to get the kind of treatment that Manning is asking for. 4. In general, it appears that people who identify as transgender seem to think that this is a reasonable choice. That's not all-trumping, but it should get considerable deference. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:19 PM, raghu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Robert Naiman < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Also, a bunch of leftists who hate the empire are about to have a quick >> seminar on transgender rights. :) >> > > > I don't know. I think I could use a quick seminar if anyone feels up to it. > > I will admit to some discomfort with the idea of medicalizing gender > identities. Terms like "gender dysphoria" and "gender identity disorder" > suggests that these are diseases that need to be cured. > > How would you feel about providing hormone therapy to suppress homosexual > desires (I believe this sort of thing was done in the past, most famously > driving Alan Turing to a tragic suicide)? > > -raghu. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected]
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