On Trying to Pass off Transphobia as Psychoanalysis and Cruelty as “Clinical Logic”

Abstract

A libel placed on the very existence of trans children... is what passes for a rational object of “debate” among adults every day in the media, online, in schools and clinics, and in the social milieu in which trans children must find a way, despite all the odds [against them], to survive, to grow, and to endure.... [Trans children are] subject... to being dismissed as unreal or brainwashed... as if such determinations are not procedurally genocidal in their holding open the world where trans life would be violently extinguished in the first place.