All eyes on disordered taxes
Filed by: Austen Crowder
February 7, 2010 1:00 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2010/02/all_eyes_on_disordered_taxes.phpI've seen a lot of brouhaha about the recent tax court decision to make transition-related expenses tax deductible, and to be honest I don't get the uproar. Namely, I read one article in particular here on Bilerico that springboards from the tax court decision into a call to move the transgender treatment and identity from a disease model to an identity model. My primary contention with the position is the assertion that transgender people should be seen as a salient identity instead of a medical condition; thus the tax court decision is a bad precedent that codifies GID as a medical condition, complete with all the issues that come with being labeled as diseased. I disagree with this position; the very foundation of a trans identity - at least in the classical, medical-model sense - is that of a disorder that needs correction.
