Posts tagged gatekeeping
A Socratic Text Conversation Between My Former Teacher and Myself Outlining the Reality of Obtaining Hormone Replacement Therapy and Gender Confirmation Surgeries

The Gatekeeping System

“As I wrestle with the facts of my situation and of any other trans person…specifically with the medical establishment’s obstinate refusal to reexamine the harmful practice of gatekeeping, I wonder if the refusal comes not after reasoned principal, but rather out of a fundamental distrust of the validity of trans peoples’, and all marginalized people’s, narratives.”

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