For the innocent this is an interesting long read. It’s one that left experienced child psychologists with their jaws on the table and informs why there is quite some confusion as to what is going on - not least amongst clinicians in this country in recent years (as can be gleaned from the Cass review).
The story of my transition and detransition.
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1) teenagers (even adult ones) sometimes haven't quite worked out who they are yet. This is really not such a radical idea. In this case, no transitioning occurred as a child - we are talking about an adult.
2) if you don't have a small number of people transitioning who subsequently realise that they have made a mistake, then you are almost certainly holding back a larger number of people for whom transitioning is the wrong thing and overall doing more harm than good.
3) I am always disappointed when cavers, who many would consider traditionally counter-culture, start telling other people who they are and how they should be or judging their choices.
4) a simple rule for life: don't be obnoxious.
5) gender is an entirely cultural concept. If you don't understand, this is entirely fine, but maybe see point 4.
6) for any given 'the young today are so radical/woke/whatever', you can find a historical analogue where people are complaining about pretty much the same or a similar thing. There is nothing radically special about now.
7) the young today have freedoms that previous generations did not have (but this isn't new, see point 6). There's no need to be judgemental about how they choose to use those freedoms (see point 4).
Going back to Roald Dahl: this is not censorship. The original versions will always be available. Censorship would be banning the publisher from making more inclusive versions for those people who want to let their children read excellent stories without picking up out of date prejudices and stereotyping.
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