Comment on Baroness Cass wants to push age for starting transitioning to 25 (NHS Adult Gender Identity Clinics)
WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 5 days agoIt’s the age we’ve decided that someone can make life changing decisions at.
Ok, firstly discarding Gillick competence (which is legally a warzone around gender transition right now) the age that a decision is allowed to make a decision on their own healthcare in the UK is 16 not 18, unless you see trans people as inherently less capable than cos, I don’t see why you’d push the age back further specifically for gender affirming care.
But more importantly, going through the wrong puberty isn’t life changing?
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 days ago
If it’s 16, then fair enough
I believe whether or not the term “wrong” to describe puberty in this instance is the subject of debate, both medical and philosophical. I have even heard some claims that puberty can fix gender dysphoria (although I don’t know how scientific this is, so don’t quote me)
If the NHS have decided not to give puberty blockers, well they have people making these decisions who are far more educated than me in this area and probably moreso than you, so I trust their judgement.
WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 5 days ago
The problem is that the decision to prevent the use of puberty blockers isn’t based on the decisions of medical experts but rather political groups more determined to erase trans people.
The Cass review, for example has been heavily criticised for its methodological flaws.
As someone who is both trans and with experience working in a related field of medicine it has been heartbreaking to see the NHS warped so cruelly by bigots and their agenda.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 days ago
I hope you’re doing better now. I hear other people claim that about the pro-trans side. But I do believe politics should be kept out of medicine.
WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 5 days ago
All the pro-trans side ever want in this debate is better medical outcomes for trans people. If that’s bringing politics to medicine then idk what the fuck apolitical medicine is.
EatMoreMacroplastics@hexbear.net 4 days ago
You are constantly advocating to get it into medicine.
zedcell@lemmygrad.ml 5 days ago
You keep being told to shut up if you’re not informed on this and then repeatedly opening your mouth to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that you have no idea. You’re a dangerous idiot.
Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 5 days ago
They also went on a rant about immigrants like a month ago. I dont even think they’re actually a committed fascist or anything just a Brit whose brain has been absolutely cooked by TERF Island fascist media.
Hopefully they are young enough to grow out of it and learn. Doubtful though.
EatMoreMacroplastics@hexbear.net 4 days ago
Generous.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 5 days ago
I have no problem with legal immigrants. In fact, I think we need to be more accommodating to them.
EatMoreMacroplastics@hexbear.net 4 days ago
Because you are an idiot who doesn’t listen to people who actually understand the subject.