ABSTRACT
Eli Clare is a writer and activist who lives and works at the intersection of trans, disability, peace, and anti-racist movements for social justice. Transition as an open door, transness as defect to fix, gender dysphoria as disability, transgender identities as nonpathologized body-mind difference—all of these various realities exist at the same time, each with its own relationship to cure and the medical-industrial complex. But in truth, the people who control transition technology—surgeons, therapists, endocrinologists, family doctors—are all embedded in the white Western system of medicine, trained to identify and repair body-mind trouble. Trans people aren’t alone in their encounters with the promise of cure.
