Also, I am reading the discussion in lizardspot's posts, and the defense of offensive medical language ("normal," "true," etc) is annoying me. Perhaps these terms have specific meanings in medicine, but they also carry the pejorative connotations from other uses of the same word-- and I wouldn't be surprised if the medical terms either came from or influenced the pejorative language. Given that doctors have so much control over a person, and given that doctors can carry harmful notions just as much as anyone else (thinking, for example, that a child must fit binary sex standards), I do think it's important to be as careful as possible with medical terminology.
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