rist Domenico Di Ceglie, who proposed that gender dysphoria, rather than a problem, should be seen as a statement by the individual setting out their goal: ‘a process analogous to the development of a vocation, such as an early calling to the priesthood or an enduring and compulsive ambition to pursue particular professional roles’. I wondered why the same reasoning couldn't be applied to anorexia, such that a clinic analogous to the Tavistock might have been set up to help and advise young children, especially young girls, on the best techniques for drastic weight loss, perhaps with medical intervention and special emetic drugs, so they could achieve their early calling to look as thin as possible. Who could deny these desperate young girls the right of agency over their own bodies? Activists would hurl abuse at those anti-anorexia campaigners…."don't you realise these young people will very likely kill themselves if they're not supported in their determination to starve till they look like living skeletons?"
Still sounds like a reasonable analogy to me. Except of course anorexia is visibly and obviously harmful to the individual.
And transitioning isn't?
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