Around 2015, some really different ideas started to take over the transsexual healthcare movement. What had been an esoteric area of medicine became a political movement to write sex out of law and destroy the gender binary. A new group of people began to take over transsexual culture, the non-binary crowd. We medically transition, they generally don’t. To the degree they do take HRT, it’s completely uncharteded territory. There’s no DSM entry for a clinician to identify non-binary. There’s no real study affirming it. It’s overwhelmingly a recent social phenomenon. As a transsexual woman, it’s obviously very easy for me to imagine not wanting to be trapped by the gender binary. So, I went along with it. But we are 10 years into this marriage, and it’s been fairly disastrous for trans acceptance. One example, California changed their law so non-binary people could check a box on a form and enter women’s spaces with zero medical transition. Fetishists have used this legal loophole to show women their penises. This horrifies me, and I don’t want this done in my name. It also disturbs me that the non-binary political end is using our suicide rates as a proxy for their policies. Parents genuinely beleive their kids will kill themselves if we don’t affirm an opt-in approach to sex that tells very young children they can be any sex they want. The clinical protocol for M2Fs specifically forbids parents from even mentioning medical transition to a child until they are 12, just for comparison. I don’t hold anything against non-binary people. But I do work in public policy, and I think actual transsexuals that medically transition are our own cohort. The political project to live in the gender binary is different than the project to destroy it. I am focusing on people that medically transition in my public role, and I will say the truth. We are not the same thing.
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