For nearly four decades, the country has recognized October as Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Sadly, this year we must draw attention to how activists and even some medical professionals are exploiting the complex disease. Breast cancer treatment is the latest medical field to be “queered.”
It may sound astonishing, even unbelievable, but to certain more extreme transgender individuals out there, breast cancer represents not a tragedy, as for most women, but an outright opportunity to embrace personal change. Breast cancer becomes reconfigured as the body’s way of rejecting unwanted female breasts in the only way a repressive heteronormative medical hierarchy will allow.
One online chatroom featured testimony from a female transitioner who now purports to be a male named Mike, who praised the “silver lining” of cancer as facilitating not only the removal of her breasts but also, due to related medical reasons, necessitating a full hysterectomy. As such,
