I wouldn’t say that all gender-affirming treatments would be on the wrong side of history. But I don’t think such a thing should be given lightly. When I was younger I felt like I was different. At one point I was also led to believe that I wasn’t a male. Turns out I just have autism. What also didn’t help is that you’re told “you can’t do xyz, you’re a boy!” I couldn’t be caring about animals, I couldn’t play with my sister’s toys, etc. Then I see a world where transgender people give an account on them feeling different and the only education I received about autism was moreso showing someone with low functioning autism- and that wasn’t even from official education systems, but my own Church trying to raise awareness. Good on them though for trying to teach us about it, albeit flawed, much better than what the schools did.
I don’t think there’s no such thing as transgender people- I just think that society has handled raising awareness of it poorly and some children may transition to “fit in”, especially into online communities. Which is relatively harmless, provided medicine isn’t provided to those who aren’t old enough to make a decision.
cheers_queers@lemm.ee 2 days ago
this is a laughable take. Imagine being so ignorant and out of touch that you think people are just handing out hormones and shit. It’s a difficult process, especially for minors, and requires multiple doctor and therapist sign offs to get started. Its almost like… gasp… it is actual science based medical care.
Fuck off with this transphobic rhetoric.