It's been a while since I posted anything here, so I might as well weed out those who aren't paying attention --
If an 18 year old, schizoaffective, dissociative, autistic, transgender, voice-hearing, fat, intellectually disabled person with Down Syndrome who visibly twitches and talks to themself in public, wants to forego psychiatric medicine but take hormone replacement therapy, they should be free to do that.
If they want to undergo gender confirmation surgery, they should be free to do that.
If they want to film porn and post it on the internet, they should be free to do that.
If they want to conceive, bear, and raise children, they should be free to do that.
If they want to subsist on nothing but gummy bears and cigarettes, they should be free to do that.
They should also have the right to vote, manage their own money, serve on a jury, and seek public office.
These examples are hypothetical, but not hyperbolic -- they are combinations of traits that really exist in real life. Real people who deserve real rights.
Autonomy and presumption of competence are for everyone. Not only for those who are deemed "smart" or "sane" or "mature," not only for those whose choices are deemed "healthy" or "morally correct." For everyone.
