What it's like to write a book that gets censored

First, let me say that I fully support one’s right to take steps that allow them to feel more comfortable in their own skin. I can’t pretend to understand everything transgender people are going through, but as a man who also identifies as bi, (something that took me 20 years to acknowledge) I could not be more supportive.

With that said, I worry about how far the pendulum has swung for issues like this. Too many topics now fall into this category that “if you’re not 100% embracing every aspect of the thing and throwing all other viewpoints away, you’re against that thing and should not be listened to”. This is wrong and dangerous.

It’s generally accepted that teenagers are not fully mature, and some activities are disallowed (drinking, smoking, driving, sex) until a certain age.

But for some reason, on this topic, people lose their minds.

I don’t know what the right answer is. But we need to be having more open conversations about these things, not censoring “dissenting” views altogether.

Teenagers are heavily influenced by their peers. If there is legitimate data that shows that girls in peer groups are all deciding to transition together or even mostly deciding to regardless of the size of the group then I would think that would be an important topic to explore. The desire to transition was very rare as far as I understand.

I feel that teenagers and young adults like to explore subjects that are known taboos. It seems reasonable to me that for every good there is a bad so we have to decide as a society to what degree making transitioning mainstream should outweigh the number of individuals who are harmfully transitioning.

Haven’t read the book, but what procedure is she talking about? I thought the standard procedure was puberty blockers until people were old enough to make decisions.

Allowing children to present as whatever gender they wish seems pretty low risk unless we are talking about surgical interventions.

inb4 someone posts that actually this is good and fine because she has Bad Opinions™ — as if it weren't obvious to the point of being banal that controversial and/or unpopular opinions are the ones that get censored first and most vigorously

Odd to post about censorship now the big tech is fully own board with censoring views they don’t like.

There will be Nuremberg-like trials for doctors, guardians, and members of the establishment who have enabled this.

Even for completely apolitical checked-out "normies", enabling and in many cases encouraging minors to permanently alter their bodies with hormones and surgery is a bridge too far.