The process of keeping trans people suppressed is a process of continually forgetting, so that trans people are continually new, and five years later are again new, and five years after that are again a new thing, and five years after that are again a new thing that just came out of nowhere all of a sudden
"Well, I just don't think we should be exposing youth to this experimental medical procedure", they say of my medical regime, which has been performed in western countries in basically its current form since 1965, and before that is known to have been performed at the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in the 1920s until the Nazis stopped it by force, and before that is attested in ambiguous accounts to have probably been performed in ancient Greece via unknown herbal analogues
@mcc imo, this is a function of hiding their existence from children. People rationalize that this must be a new thing because "why haven't I ever heard of it before then?"
I'll never understand how people can simultaneously treat childhood as a black box that you can never allow external problems to penetrate, while also believing that there's no chance that they have an underdeveloped understanding of the problems they didn't know existed until they moved out.
@mcc great post by morgan page on this subject, though from a slightly different direction: https://valleyofthed.substack.com/p/never-be-new-again i've been thinking about how the same rhetorical strategy of denying historicity is used to market technology: everything is new, everything is "first," even if (as with, say, text generation) it has been around for generations
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