Blog # 55: Alice Dreger Emits Another Stink Bomb
by transmeditations on July 6, 2011.
http://transmeditations.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/blog-55-alice-dreger-emits-another-stink-bomb/Alice Dreger has a long history of pissing off the communities she supposedly advocates for. From helping to coin and inaugurate the "DSD" (Disorders of Sex Development) nomenclature that is offensive to most members of the Intersex Community, to publishing a long apologia to rabid transphobe J. Michael Bailey and enraging the trans community, Alice Dreger likes to fancy herself as a provocative agent of the truth, but really she is a just an egomaniacal hackademic who exploits minority groups for her own professional gain.
Most recently, she has teamed up with another notorious transphobe, Dan Savage, to publish an article attacking trans youth and those professionals who work with them. (Published in Savage's paper The Stranger, here.) Her basic argument is that she once knew a kid that wanted to be a train. Kids want to be all sorts of things, including a different gender. But because they are kids, us adults should not really believe them, because, after all, they might just be going through a phase like the train kid was. This article stinks not only of transphobia, but of rabid adultism as well. Adultism is prejudice, hatred and discrimination by adults against young people, especially children, based on the notion of adult superiority and the belief that children always need adults to make decisions for them.
