Comment on Baroness Cass wants to push age for starting transitioning to 25 (NHS Adult Gender Identity Clinics)

• EatMoreMacroplastics@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  See, that’s the problem with you transphobes, you routinely place possible regret of one cis kid over the wellbeing of hundreds of trans kids. That’s the exact situation in the UK, you have 1 (in words: one) supposed “detransitioner” who claims she regretted treatment and the hundreds of trans kids that get denied treatment because of how her alleged mistake was weaponized and the dozens of trans kids that have killed themselves over this do not fucking matter to you. That’s pure transphobia, you prioritize one alleged cis person over hundreds of trans people because we do not matter to you.

  And why hormones and not puberty blockers?

  I don’t mind if a trans kid wants to start with blockers, most just don’t. Trans kids have a right to grow up at the same pace as cis kids, it’s not ok to force them to stay in a child’s body while everybody around them can develop just because cis people feel uncomfortable and overwhelmed with things we understand better than them.

  And even that compromise is never enough for you, it’s under attack anywhere. Why even bother arguing for that then? Why not voice what we actually demand and deserve?

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I know several people who identified as transgender before they were 18 and didn’t get treatment and no longer identify as transgender. We’d have more of these detransitioners if we did what you suggested. I could have possibly been one of them.

    It seems the issue here is suicide. Suicide can be prevented with methods that aren’t giving children life changing medication because they suspect they might be transgender.

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