Trans Diagnosis: Medical, Psychological or ... for medical paths (surgery, hormones, etc.)

[daisygrrl]

I feel like I need to “out myself” from the beginning: I do not idenitfy as "trans" but I’ve thought about these ideas for several years, as a humanitarian and as having partnered with self-identified trans persons in the past.

The crux of this argument for me is: does a diagnosis, which is imposed and used as the main indicator of “truth” (scientifically speaking), erase agency? I really like Hudson’s post because it helps me reframe my worries a bit into thinking that maybe the more important question is, “How can we create spaces of agency within the discourses of sex/sexuality/all diagnoses/and even trauma?”

As far as de-stigmatizing (meaning the removal of cultural belief of a “defect”), WeatherB, I think it’s an important project in regard to any clinical diagnosis. I just wish the individual’s personal identification was privileged over medical discourse.