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talkinggorillabutler asked:
you've previously stated that previous black power moments ended in anti-semitism. You've also stated that this is not the first transexual moment. What ended the previous transexual moments?
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Well the 70s Renee Richards/Wendy Carlos one
Really drew on the authority of the two master disciplines of midcentury health care - surgery and psychiatry - just as they had peaked and were on the downslope
Consider how now in our present pharmaceutical paradigm hormones are the important thing and “informed consent” transition might not involve therapy or surgery
In particular, a lot of “sex assignment” theorizing was based off of theories of infinite human plasticity especially re: intersex births that didn’t pan out
as the 70s became the 80s, benefit payors - insurers and welfare providers - became more suspicious of psychiatric stuff as a blank check black hole, this was when the DSM started displacing Freudianism with cost-benefit proven therapies
second-wave radfems jumped on this to frame transition as a noncovered elective procedure - few could afford it, only a few specialists could make training in it worthwhile
even if you could afford it it was heavily gatekept towards passing which means people maybe didn’t notice it in the 80s-2000s, exemplary I think was a Veronica Mars episode that turns that if reminded you’d be like “oh someone’s dad could become someone’s wife” but you’d never suspect unprompted