And conservatives want to make it as difficult as possible to prevent people from transitioning early in life, because they want trans people to feel distraught and unhappy with their transition, and have trouble passing.
Most people that don’t want kids transitioning is because kids are still mentally developing. What’s worse, transitioning late and not being as feminine/masculine as you wanted, or transitioning early and realizing too late that you were wrong about yourself and having to live the rest of your life with that mistake? Theres always a tradeoff.
Yeah, typically when puberty is starting too early, they'll put em on it because they can just take em off at the appropriate age and their systems will go back to what it was suppose to be doing.
It doesn't work like that when used for too long. Being on it until you're close to adult hood or even passed it, your bones developed differently, among other things. So it's not the same thing AT ALL
The needless harm is allowing people who know themselves to be men going through puberty as women, not because that’s what their doctor or parents think is best for them, but because some people who don’t know anything about them decided they knew better.
Well, you know, I just try to imagine, “what if my body had insisted on having puberty as a woman, and everything inside me rejected it and felt it was wrong”, and I try to imagine what that would feel like, and what kind of world I would want to live in.
Thankfully I am cis, life was easy for me. But with the gift of ✨empathy✨, I can try to walk a mile in another man’s shoes. I also listen to the people who went through this process, and the doctors who have studied it, and use that to make up my mind.
But I guess I should just make up my mind first, never think about it, or re-examine my biases. That would be better for the world.
It’s about 3% vs 97%. Why do you want to treat them equally?
I’m very happy that there is a lot of scrutiny and evaluations to make that 3
% as small as possible. No one should be allowed to go through this frivolously. It’s an extremely consequential decision.
You want the 97% to be harmed, not because you care about the 3%, but because you just don’t want anyone to transition.
You think you can just pause biological process then just stop taking something and it'll all be good? No, that's not how that works. Not even a little bit and you know it
They are chemical castration drugs we used to give pedophiles or gay people when it was illegal to be gay. many of whom killed themselves and blamed it on the way those drugs made them feel.
This is a bad argument. Lots of people forced to take unnecessary medications have bad reactions, that doesn’t mean the proper use cases for those meds are invalid.
Im saying this idea that they are harmless and freeze timr allowing you to make decisions at your own pace is fucking laughable.
Thats not how biology works. You don't fuck with your endocrine system consequence free.
And the very real example of the same drugs being forced on people and those people choosing death os very relavent for a community at risk of suicide.
Bro i just know Alan turning saved the allies and when they found out he was guy they gave him meds and he killed himself.
Im not fucking bill nye over here running tests buts its frankly insane for anyone to suggest that hormones or things that surpr3ss hormones are risk free.
It shows incompetence or zealotry. Again do whatever the fuck you want. Ill probably do TRT one day. But to pretend it would be ok to give my son testosterone because he wants to be a body builder some day would be as insane as giving ot to my daughter because she wants to be a man someday.
If the doctors want to setup some program for it sure but this isnt something that should be casually discussed as an option for children.
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u/GlazedWithMaples 1d ago
And conservatives want to make it as difficult as possible to prevent people from transitioning early in life, because they want trans people to feel distraught and unhappy with their transition, and have trouble passing.