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yeah, it's heavily ironic when the anti-trans activist Matt Walsh led the "Rally to End Child Mutilation" while he continues to support non-consensual genital mutilation of intersex infants born with ambiguous genitalia to conform them to our mythologized concept of two sexes. Trans kids don't get surgeries, so the only "child mutilation" happening is to intersex kids. Very rarely, some 17 year old trans minors might be approved for gender-affirming surgeries before they are the age of the majority, but that's what Matt Walsh is calling "child mutilation" here, gender-affirming care already offered to cis people without an age limit, being also offered to trans people that are nearly adults.
It's also heavily ironic that trans people are accused of having a gender ideology since the two-sex model is clearly only propped up by ideology - otherwise why do they need laws to enforce the concept of two sexes and interventions to mutilate children to enforce it?
As one of those intersex kids that didn't get a say in their own genital configuration and then came out as trans, it's just barbaric to perform a surgery that is not medically necessary. Decades later and I'm now suffering consequences of this surgery, both physically and mentally, because someone else decided I needed to confirm to a male configuration.