It also has disadvantages. For example, the medicalization of unfulfilled transgenderism as a mental illness ("gender dysphoria") raises the question of whether the appropriate "treatment" is attempting to align the body to the mind or vice versa. The current medical trend is toward the form…
It also has disadvantages. For example, the medicalization of unfulfilled transgenderism as a mental illness ("gender dysphoria") raises the question of whether the appropriate "treatment" is attempting to align the body to the mind or vice versa. The current medical trend is toward the former, but that doesn't mean it will stay that way. And once you've medicalized something, especially in the mental health field, the trend can easily be codified in coercive ways.
Yes, "born this way" has rhetorical advantages.
It also has disadvantages. For example, the medicalization of unfulfilled transgenderism as a mental illness ("gender dysphoria") raises the question of whether the appropriate "treatment" is attempting to align the body to the mind or vice versa. The current medical trend is toward the former, but that doesn't mean it will stay that way. And once you've medicalized something, especially in the mental health field, the trend can easily be codified in coercive ways.