Clementine Morrigan is a Canadian writer who has become skeptical of gender affirming care for trans and gender diverse youth.
Morrigan has self-branded as a leftist critic of “cancel culture.”
Background
Morrigan says in 2020, “I got cancelled for the most absurd, stupid reasons. I was accused of not sharing Black Lives Matter on Instagram. I was like, I have been sharing it, and the person was like, ‘de–platform.’ Then I was cancelled as a white supremacist across the internet, I lost all my friends, I had to move.”
Morrigan says this led to “losing my housing, almost all my friends and community, many employment opportunities, a book deal, being black listed from many events and spaces, having everyone who associates with me be harassed and threatened, being driven close to suicide, years of extremely bad mental health, oh and my tires being slashed and literal shit poured into the air vents of my car.”
Activism
Morrigan has appeared on the anti-trans podcast Blocked and Reported and echoes the hosts’ FUD propaganda on trans healthcare for young people:
“It’s only in the last few years, as medical transition options for youth became more common and widespread, that I started to hear about some of the downsides and issues with this approach to supporting trans and gender-nonconforming youth. These include the increasing number of detransitioners, people who medically transitioned and later decide they are not trans, potential issues in sexual function for adults who used puberty blockers in their youth, impacts on what types of vaginoplasty (bottom surgery) are possible for trans women with less genital tissue due to going on puberty blockers in their youth, and a lack of information about the longterm impacts of these interventions. There are a number of potential risks and downsides to youth medical transition, both for youth who turn out to be trans adults and for youth who grow up to decide they are not trans. Sometimes those risks are outweighed by the benefits, but not always. Acknowledging this does not mean that youth medical transition should never happen. It means that medical transition for youth has risks associated with it, and these risks should be known, considered, researched, discussed, and taken seriously. As Jesse Singal has written: ‘it would be foolish to pretend that unless you’re a transphobe, there’s nothing to discuss here.'”
References
Morrigan, Clementine (February 29, 2024). Terfs, trans women, and feminism. https://www.clementinemorrigan.com/p/terfs-trans-women-and-feminism
Oldfield, Elizabeth (February 14, 2024). Clementine Morrigan on Trauma, Alcohol Recovery, and Challenging Cancel Culture from the Left. Theos https://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/comment/2024/02/14/clementine-morrigan-on-trauma-alcohol-recovery-and-challenging-cancel-culture-from-the-left
Morrigan, Clementine (October 2, 2023). What is gender? What about the children? https://www.clementinemorrigan.com/p/what-is-gender-what-about-the-children
Morrigan, Clementine (June 24, 2022). INTERVIEW: Cancel culture, social justice and white guilt. Tangle https://www.readtangle.com/clementine-morrigan-cancel-culture-social-justice/
Resources
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