[Redway]

I think I’m just middle-of-the-road when it comes to this whole discussion. On the one hand there’s no way I think under-18s (personally I’d say under-21s) are developed enough to be deemed capable of going through with sexual reassignment (although I wouldn’t have referred to the wanting to in kids and adolescents in such a dismissive/‘it’s just a phase, kids’ way) but at the same time I just don’t get why people seem so adamant to either invariably pathologise transgendered folk experiences or deny that transphobic assaults do happen. I can see where most sides of these arguments come from (and they’re absolutely valid in so many other ways) but if homophobic and even racial assaults occur then so do transphobic ones and there’s evidence to prove that. The fact that a lot of homophobia and racism happens online/on Twitter doesn’t mean face-to-face physical abuse doesn’t happen and it’s a similar case with trans. folk.