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This view of trans children as sympathetic may not be quite as progressive as it seems.  While it’s wonderful to see trans children treated as actual living breathing human beings, and more positive representations will definitely help those children gain access to blockers and hormones, what happens when they grow up?

Because at some point, most of those children will become sexually active teens and adults–and then we’re at the same point as before.  Until we start to really interrogate the ways in which we idealise children and then demonise the adults they grow into (from innocent to fallen), things won’t really have changed so much after all…

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Super interesting short article about portrayals of trans* children. 

I’ve been thinking about this ALOT lately.  And I would add to this that often sympathetic portrayals of trans* adults depend on framing us as being “like children” (supposedly innocent, non-sexual, etc.) or focusing our narratives on our childhood histories (“she always knew…. etc. etc.”). 

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