“Today’s episode argues that recent proposals in the UK requiring neurodivergent trans youth to undergo extensive diagnostic evaluations are not supportive measures, but rather a strategy of containment and gatekeeping. This approach, they contend, uses diagnosis as a means to delay and question the validity of gender identity, particularly for those who do not conform to systemic expectations of presentation or narrative. The author of the source article, Dr. Jaime Hoerricks, highlights how this practice fits into a historical pattern of using diagnosis to control marginalised communities and argues that autistic individuals, with their aptitude for pattern recognition, are uniquely equipped to identify these tactics. Ultimately, Dr. Hoerricks asserts that sovereignty and self-knowledge, not diagnostic labels, are what the system fears most.”
Here’s the link to the source article: https://open.substack.com/pub/autside/p/the-diagnostic-cage-when-support
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