Dissecting Anti-Transgender Health Care Narratives

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Jessie Earl

ooohhh, I would love a jar of cookies in the void

Jessie Earl

Your close is powerful. I'm sorry that just expressing truth can be so painful to do. Your framing at the start, where 60 Minutes as "your grandparents' Sunday evening show is spot on. 60 Minutes has been a voice for the establishment for *generations* at this point. They've been on the side of the powerful and connected at every turn. All while presenting themselves as a voice which "speaks truth to power". This is why people like you are so important, voices such as yours must be raised and call out institutions when they harm the margainalized, 60 minutes is the mouthpiece for the Established Power in our culture. You're the one who is speaking truth to power.

SuperDezzy

And yes, Jessie, you are a STAR! (turns on floodlights, pipes in Oscars Orchestral Music).

SuperDezzy

Sends Jessie a jar of cookies to make the 60 minutes void more bearable. No spoons tho.

SuperDezzy

Thanks <3

Jessie Earl

haha I try

Jessie Earl

Indeed, very much so

Jessie Earl

yuppp

Jessie Earl

Totally understandable

Jessie Earl

What I would like to see more of are stories by feminist transmen (and nonbinary AFAB), people who, like myself, definitely support women's rights and support that women can look however and be however, fem, tomboy, football player, it's all good... and that inner struggle you go through of "do I just hate how society treats women and/or don't fit into society's gender norms or am I actually trans?"... and that you can be a transman, that it's more about body dysphoria... and that you can be a transman and still definitely be a feminist, and that that shouldn't hurt the cause of women at all... ...tldr these terfs and people are speaking for us, without listening to us, and painting us incorrectly... you can be a feminist and a transman, and that shouldn't detract from broadening achievements for women... not to mention, I don't think you can be a good civil rights proponent if you build your platform around trying to deny rights to trans people...

loved the John Oliver line. And good piece. Just goes to show how manipulative the news can be through what it chooses to highlight and what it chooses to omit.

"Is that John Oliver over there?" Well, at least you ended this video about a frustratingly obtuse report with the best joke I've heard all day. (Also, Endgame move over, there's a new most ambitious crossover, it's Jessie Gender and John Oliver.)

zara

The anti-trans narrative seems to be focused almost exclusively on the protection of (white) girls, from trans women in their bathrooms or in their sports and from "gender ideologues" taking away their breasts and fertility. We've seen this playbook before.

The optics of the 60 minutes piece reinforce what we have long known about our media and culture: nothing is remotely as important as the safety of young, conventionally attractive white (cis)women.

I couldn't finish, sorry. It's a good video, but it gives me anxiety.

Hannah F.

It's a safe bet. I have personally found that people who are either "pro trans" or at least not anti trans often have a hard time understaning how/why anyone would be anti trans. Either 60' has low key one TERF or they just don't get how dangerous things are now.

Hontas Farmer

I'm betting on the "bubble" being the reason for a lot of the misses by 60 Minutes; they know their audience. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." For an older generation, I still often recommend Nat Geo's "Gender Revolution" video. It's a little dated and isn't very deep, but she's a name and face that people are comfortable with.

Scott G

YUP YUP YUP TO ALL OF THIS!

Jessie Earl

At 11:37 I think 60' made a mistake. I know that Chicago's children's hospital had a program in the 2010's. 14:55 On WPATH guidelines you are correct about health insurance companies. However, for many transwomen of color, and young starters doctors have often not followed those. In particular for those who have the ... how shall I say it ... marketable look who would pay for their care the old fashioned way. I speak from experience of getting all but SRS by those means. That or by credit which I then paid off by whatever means I could. 24:45 I also did the sort of temporary "detransition" you spoke of. Mainly from not being able to obtain hormones for various reasons. That said one thing I'd love to see is more of an understanding of the following. Detransition and self questioning is part of the process for a lot of people. It does not have to be quick and linear to be a "success". 27:22 OMG an FNing subreddit! Even then 19.5k / tens of millions of us world wide is a round off error. This is all to make detransitioners look oppressed and underground. 28:j41 No saying that with some good old southern twang was just right. 100% Agree with everything you have said here. Especially how 60 minutes seems to have ZERO awareness of how harmful it is to focus a story on the times things don't work out and not talk at least as much as all of the times they do. Either this is by malice OR they are just so in a bubble of people who are pro trans ... that they can't even think of how anti trans people might use their work.

Hontas Farmer