Why This Trans Person Is Tired of Pamela Paul’s Columns
She could just stop talking about us. She could talk about anything else.
Yesterday, the New York Times published a nearly 5,000-word opinion column by Pamela Paul.
She begins with a detransitioner’s story:
“In the fall of her senior year of high school, she started cross-sex hormones. She had a double mastectomy the summer before college, then went off as a transgender man named Grayson to Sarah Lawrence College, where she was paired with a male roommate on a men’s floor. At 5-foot-3, she felt she came across as a very effeminate gay man.”
Sounds like my story, except I’m two inches taller and 20 years older, hence my high school transition is 26 years in the rear view mirror.
My height isn’t the reason I didn’t get a phone call from Pamela Paul.
My age probably would have disqualified me, as it distracts from the dominant anti-trans narrative that gender-affirming hormones and surgery have been available for minors only within the last decade rather than, say, over the last century. Or that when minors transition today, it is somehow qualitatively different from when minors transitioned years ago, and thus trans adults’ retrospectives may be generally dismissed.
