Letter to the Editor | In protection of the trans agenda

We had recognized today was coming for a while. Amidst a tsunami of anti-trans laws and rising transphobia throughout the nation, it’s not unsurprising that Stanford’s personal student-organized neofascist clown automobile needed to get in on the motion. 

First, we should dispel a number of foolish myths. Intercourse is extra difficult than a easy binary, and variation in gender id and expression is frequent in lots of cultures internationally. Trans folks have all the time existed. Youngsters know their gender id, don’t transition on a whim, not often cease, are capable of make the choice to transition and have regular ranges of stress when allowed to transition. Medical doctors will not be blindly handing out puberty blockers. Making an attempt to persuade folks to not transition is dangerous. Letting trans folks use the restroom won’t result in predators harassing ladies in bogs; quite the opposite, trans individuals are those who’re routinely harassed and assaulted. Letting trans folks play sports activities will profit groups and athletes. Lower than half of a % of individuals remorse gender-affirming gonadectomy surgical procedures, and individuals who detransition most frequently achieve this due to societal and familial stress.

In fact, opposition to trans-inclusive insurance policies is a operate of latent transphobia, a disgust at nonconformity that leans in direction of fascism. Insurance policies that dictate which lives are acceptable and that are condemned to a state of organized abandonment fall neatly in step with the lengthy custom of eugenics in America. Certainly, calling the current wave of anti-trans sentiment internationally genocidal isn’t any exaggeration. Gender-affirming care saves lives. Limiting entry is an assault on the power of sufferers, mother and father, and physicians to entry essential medical care. Trans rights are basically questions of bodily autonomy, of our proper to exist in society as we’re and never as we’re informed to be.

It’s at this level we wish to word that writing these letters is exhausting. Whereas information organizations debate our proper to exist, whereas right-wing grifters strive to determine how to interact with us with out being hilariously awkward, now we have been busy taking good care of our personal time and time once more. We’ve found out find out how to navigate a labyrinthine maze of gatekeeping and malpractice to medically transition. Irrespective of how dire the circumstances have appeared, now we have organized, now we have protested, now we have finished it ourselves, now we have constructed a greater world collectively. And we’re drained. We don’t really need to spend our free time writing letters as a result of SCR has determined to display a documentary that attempted to dupe trans folks into collaborating in one more 90-minute elaboration on the identical outdated transphobic stupidity.

Would you prefer to know what we mysterious and unknowable transgender beings need as an alternative? We wish to not be murdered for merely current. We would like our gravestones to have our actual names. We would like sufficient meals to eat. We would like housing. We need to be paid pretty for our labor. We would like to have the ability to go to the physician. We need to survive. 

No, we need to thrive. We would like hormones handed out like skittles. We need to play with our look like a cat with a toy. We would like piercings and tattoos and blue hair and leather-based. We need to check out new names each hour. We need to use all of the pronouns you’ve heard of, and all of the genders you haven’t. We need to be stunning, we need to be horny, we need to Chili’s-Superior-Blossom our option to a cheerful new vagina, we need to take the massive dick. We need to create filth, to be homosexual and do crimes, to make your favourite characters all trans. We would like our mother and father to like us, and we would like our youngsters to dream. We would like liberation. We would like absolutely automated luxurious homosexual area communism. We need to be tipsy & free, we would like ground size bolshevik attire, we would like all of the flowers kneeling. 

Adi Xiyal Mukund is an M.D./Ph.D. pupil within the Biophysics program and is on employees at QSR.