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[quote=Anonymous]As noted above, it is the non-binary movement calling such folks "trans" that is the cause of much confusion. 
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/non-binary-transgender-you-havent-heard-of/

Part the problem in my view is that the non-binary movement has taken what many binary transgender folks view as really a medical issue -- brain and rest of body not matching -- and adopted the language of "gender identification."   This opens the Pandora's box -- how one identifies -- as something of a matter of personal reflection rather than biological /mental health imperative.  Recall last year the NAACP official who was "white" but long "identified" as black.  This is a political social movement that has gotten way out in front on college campuses without any grown ups challenging because our liberal campus "identity politics" welcome this sort of thinking.  It is no wonder that it has spilled down into gender.   There is a societal /philosophical issue totally ignored here -- to what extent should society be accommodating of the non-binary?  Can they alternate between men's and women's rest rooms?  How consistently must they adopt their outward approach to gender?  These are issues not really raised by binary trans people.  But you won't find any college administrators publically asking these questions because to do so is now deemed non-PC; not "progressive."

So while I share some of your concerns, the solution has to be one that is much bigger than simply trying to restrict hormones at colleges (I'm not sure how wide spread the practice is of taking them among non-binary people -- many non-binary and some trans people never physically transition; I doubt there are good stats on this issue yet.)  A broader philosophical engagement with colleges and young people is needed.

The brain may keep developing into the 20s, but you'll never change policies by arguing that college students can't make "irreversible life altering decisions like this."   Not until we prohibit them from enlisting in the military to go off to Iraq, allow men and women to drink to the point of incognition at frat parties, make it illegal for 18 year olds to engage in unprotected sexual activity, or volunteer to do community service in high violence countries or neighborhood in the U.S.  These are all potentially irreversible life altering decisions -- they are potentially life and death decisions - but we allow 18 years olds to make them every day. 
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