I Really Wish We'd Collectively Decide To Stop Pushing The Whole "brains Aren't Fully Developed Until

I really wish we'd collectively decide to stop pushing the whole "brains aren't fully developed until age 25" thing.

I've seen this three separate times this week and two of those came from TERF's arguing that 1) no one under the age of 25 should be allowed to medically transition, and 2) that puberty blockers also block brain development and prevent trans youth from becoming adults/developing adult brains.

Is this really the direction that we want to go here? 24 year olds not considered fully adults, not allowed to make their own medical decisions? Because this is what anti-trans people are pushing for in regards to gender affirming healthcare.

Maybe it's the pissed off millennial in me sick of the infantilization of my generation. Maybe it's because I'm transmasc and I've seen repeatedly how TERFs infantilize trans men and transmasc people. Maybe I'm just too neurodivergent for this bullshit and entirely creeped out and disgusted by the concept of mental age in every form. But this is not the damned way.

It's not even an entirely accurate statement--We already know that brain development continues well into our 30's and beyond, and it varies by person.

Personally I'm glad that I can't relate to that nonsense. I'll be 30 later this year and my very neurodivergent self is still becoming, still learning, and still doing new things all the time that I never thought I'd be capable of doing. I'm worthy of bodily autonomy and respect now, and I was before 25 and before 18 too.

People don't have to have "fully developed brains" in order to be deserving of bodily autonomy and the freedom to make their own medical decisions.

People don't have to be adults--in any way--to be worthy of having their gender identity respected.

And we don't have to be neurotypical to be worthy of having access to gender affirming health care.