"We need to change the terms of the debate on trans kids"

It's getting too specific about what we're actually doing and that's making this medical scandal harder to sustain! On Masha Gessen's New Yorker piece.

Masha Gessen's argument, in a nutshell: Autonomy good. Bounds of childhood arbitrary. Mistakes individual and not something medical system should guard against or learn from.

But there's a difference between what someone like Keira Bell experienced and a childish mistake, between normal adolescent experimentation and medical experimentation. There is suc…