The original post: explicitly questions the ease of access to a gender-affirming procedure (albeit in the context of cis people), immediately segues into asking why it’s considered gender-affirming for trans women
Multiple people: where does this mention access to gender-affirming care??????????
If someone needs to explicitly say “this procedure should be outlawed” for you guys to understand that someone leans towards limiting bodily autonomy, we are seriously doomed. Bodily autonomy necessarily includes doing things with one’s own body that are influenced by external factors, even things that you personally dislike or are shaped by systems of oppression. There isn’t a single body that isn’t shaped by external factors. There are no “pure” and “natural” bodies.
This includes self-harm btw. That doesn’t mean that I think self-harm is “good” (tho I’d argue that stigmatizing it as “bad” is more harmful than helpful), or that people SHOULD harm themselves, it means that we already have systems in place that brutalize people who harm their bodies and rob them of autonomy on the grounds that they can’t make their own decisions (see: psychiatry). We can already see how “it’s self-harm” is weaponized by transphobes, too.