And it shouldn't have to
Here is an excerpt
Next Thursday, I will get a vagina. The procedure will last around six hours, and I will be in recovery for at least three months. Until the day I die, my body will regard the vagina as a wound; as a result, it will require regular, painful attention to maintain. This is what I want, but there is no guarantee it will make me happier. In fact, I don’t expect it to. That shouldn’t disqualify me from getting it.
And
I was not suicidal before hormones. Now I often am.
I won’t go through with it, probably. Killing is icky. I tell you this not because I’m cruising for sympathy but to prepare you for what I’m telling you now: I still want this, all of it. I want the tears; I want the pain. Transition doesn’t have to make me happy for me to want it. Left to their own devices, people will rarely pursue what makes them feel good in the long term. Desire and happiness are independent agents.
Here is an excellent article on that piece,
Freeing the autonomous will from sex and gender norms is the summum bonum of contemporary American progressivism. The insatiably miserable Andrea Long Chu is its incarnation.
https://www.theamericanconservative.com ... ke-vagina/
Thoughts? Opinions?
Here are my two cents: identity has warped from a common denominator into something very individualistic and narcissistic. Chu's mindset here is a symptom of a rabid and destructive individualism. More and more the queer identity is less a matter of being a part of society, and more is becoming a way to tear apart society by attacking common denominators (even gender itself is attacked by some as simply LARP'ing, see Judith Butler).
