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Raiders of the Lost Etiology

Started by Shana A, January 29, 2011, 09:25:55 AM

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Shana A

January 29, 2011, 09:25:55 AM
Raiders of the Lost Etiology
Written by Quinnae Moongazer
January 27th, 2011 at 1:04 am

http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3592

One of the rather fun things about being trans is that you live in a world where doctors poke and prod you hoping to find deep answers about why you exist- deep, award-winning, and powerful answers that will at last enable them to explain what the hell is up with us; because it's not like we're authorities on our own lives or anything.

To set the snark aside, I'm of course talking about the endless quest to find an etiology- or medical explanation of origin- for trans existence, a recent example of which can be found here. It is a particularly transfixing matter that seems to occupy the place of El Dorado or the Fountain of Youth in the eyes of our medical masters. A Lost Ark of the Covenant with which to at last claim final dominion over us. The ultimate Holy Grail being a "trans test" whereby folks in white coats will be able to objectively prove that someone is trans.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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