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[–]BiologyIsReal 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

As a outsider, it seems like the QT position is basically "biological sex is a spectrum and/or a social construct, therefore since you can't know who is female and male from their bodies self-ID is the way to go." Also, QT are against requiring trans identified people undergone any step of "medical transition" in order to legally change sex. Since transmedicalists favour requiring a clinical diagnostic and "medical transition", I guess that is why QT hate them.

I think QT use gender dysphoria in their arguments because, first, they understand this is something the general public is more likely to accept and, second, because they still want "gender affirming treatment" being covered up by the health system.

[–]FlanJam[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I think dysphoria is one of their strongest arguments for those reason. Idk how they could argue without it. The transmedicalist view seems a lot stronger to me now, when compared to the self-id, sex is a construct view.

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they still want "gender affirming treatment" being covered up by the health system.

And there you have it. Judith Butler isn't going to fund anyone's surgery/Rx bills.