Okay. I still don't understand your original comment about autism and whatnot, but I can answer this.
It's because this essay isn't trying to address whether or not puberty blockers are good or bad. It's not trying to solve any of the problems that need to be solved.
It's only trying to do two things:
1. Show why people who wouldn't say "yes" to the three premises I put down (in other words, people who are transphobic— defined as afraid of trans people or afraid that embracing trans logics and needs will harm society*) have no place in the debates about the problems to solve. Why? Because you can't solve a problem when you're biased towards the conclusion being that whoever created the problem needs to just stop creating it. In this case, that would mean saying that trans people just need to stop being trans. You will not be able to think of creative solutions if you don't think the problem is a good problem to have. If you think it's a morally bad problem to have, you'll want to just erase the problem in some way, not wrestle with it in good faith.
2. I'm wanting anyone who is concerned about puberty blockers, et. al, to stop making certain bad arguments. They are logically fallacious and they're distracting. So, I'm trying to show how they are logically fallacious, so that we can move away from them and instead make arguments that are logical and helpful.
This is just one TEENY contribution, this essay, limited in scope, because, as we all know and can see in how the comments have unfolded on this essay, once we start talking about one thing, people get all distracted from the argument that's there, and they start bringing up other points that, technically, logically speaking, are actually unrelated to what's being discussed. And the more scope an essay has, the more vulnerable it is for that to happen, the more distracted people get, the more side arguments need to happen.
I'm working on a very cool way to organize it all and allow ANYONE to contribute to this giant issue in a problem solving way. Stay tuned!
*When I use the word "transphobic" I don't mean it as a slur. I mean it literally. I wrote this: https://medium.com/@natashacoulis/an-argument-for-embracing-the-label-transphobic-b4d498b6453f
