Butlerian notions of gender are generally disliked by a lot of troons nowadays it seems, especially by less intellectually sophisticated ones.
The problem (correctly perceived) is that social constructionist views of gender don't inherently support troon desires; it's not even inherently progressive. I think social constructionism as a rhetorical strategy is an underdog's trick, it allow you to inject a degree of incoherence ('deconstruct', 'problematize' etc.) that gives you some latitude to maneuver and present novel claims, but it doesn't allow you to enforce any kind of orthodoxy. It cuts both ways, just like say free speech does.
Hence, you can now find troons on reddit saying things like "gender identity isn't a social construct" or whatever.
"savagefootball22"
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The advice is unironically quite reasonable, the only thing I'd change is to emphasize that the causality runs in the opposite direction to what the letter-writer supposes. If you wanted a single factor predictor for AGP/non-homosexual trooning, then couldn't do better than deficiency in social/emotional reciprocity. It's the shared feature of NPD, autism, anti-social PD schizophrenia, schizoid PD etc.. That's probably a bit much for Dani to admit though.
It's also often to increase their final height, hence if you look at the literature on GnRHa, papers often will talk about using it in conjunction with HGH.
I think in both cases, the rationale isn't particularly good, especially given the possibility of harm. Height doesn't matter very much for girls and worries about age inappropriate sexualization are not obviously reasonable. I'd be curious if there is even
any evidence of benefits to the child's well-being from the treatment (as opposed to trials examining safety). It seems that the idea is relatively out of fashion anyways and that tweet is probably just /r/ThatHappened.
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Some reddit moderation, this is from some large-ish random politics subreddit:
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https://www.reddit.com/r/moderatepo..._of_the_subreddit_victims_of_our_own_success/ (
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