Anonymous asked: what would an ideal gatekeeping process look like to you? you're vocal about hormones and surgery being too easy to access, but what kind of screening do you think there should be?

In a phrase: trauma informed care. Holistic well-being needs to be the priority, and if there are problems that could contribute to dysphoria (trauma history, internalized misogyny/lesbophobia, mental health issues, etc) then those should be explored to see if the person can live with fewer, less drastic, or perhaps even no modifications to their body. I don’t advocate “conversion therapy” for the dysphoric person to “accept their gender role”, as I’ve seen people say that radfems do. I advocate the full spectrum of human experience and personality type to be accepted without regard for sex. I can’t say that this will fix all cases of dysphoria or render transition irrelevant, and I don’t think that anyone can do more than give informed speculation until this model is actually implemented, but I think that it would help.