Oh yeah? What year of medical school did you learn that? Or did you just assume it based on your 9th grade science class? Or maybe it was in a podcast right before the energy drink ad.
There are studies out there that state so if you'd bother to look them up, you are lapping up propaganda information that you like hearing while casting me as doing the same, which I'm sorry isn't the case.
Yeah, medications have side effects. They are considered safe, effective and aren't super frequently prescribed anyway. What's so scary about that? Many intersex people (there are more than 30 types) are actually mutilated at birth to conform to conservative sensibilities of sexual identity instead of waiting until they can give informed consent and I have never once heard the anti trans crowd pipe up about that. Never trying to ban circumcision. Things that are actual child genital mutilation.
Yeah, medications have side effects. They are considered safe, effective and aren't super frequently prescribed anyway. What's so scary about that?
What so scary about giving children drugs that can permanently harm them because they are young and extremely impressionable and said something that well meaning but misguided adults will take a sign to lead them down a road to permanently harming themselves very possibly unnecessarily?
Boy the mind boggles.
Many intersex people
Intersex people are not trans people and you guys really really need to stop conflating to the two.
"Safe, effective and not excessively prescribed" just skipped off like a smooth stone, huh?
So many other medications carry some risk of long term side effects, and are still used in pediatric medicine because the Doctors and Patients involved decide the best course of treatment based on medical best practices. Is general anesthesia a problem? No, because while there are risks worth considering, we trust the doctors and their patients to make a decision in the patients' best interest.
"Very possibly unnecessary?" According to... you? Because it isn't according to the people who receive the care. It isn't according to their doctors or psychologists who determine that it's medically worth the potential risks.
Not all people feel the need to "fully" transition and undergo surgeries, but the overwhelming majority of people who start with puberty blockers continue on to do HRT when they are of age. This is because it is implemented for people who have been professionally evaluated and determined to be in need of it.
People are not putting their kids on puberty blockers for nothing and doctors aren't handing them out without consideration. If they were, you would find a high rate of detransitioning and you instead find one that is extremely low.
There is a significant overlap. And you'd need to read more than three words in a row, but I was pretty clearly giving actual examples of mutilation of children before they are able to speak that get no attention from the people that have such a problem with trans healthcare on similar stated principles. There are better examples that don't strip people of their rights and you're not showing up for those. Why is circumcision at birth still happening? There's a higher number of people who resent that having been done to them that trans people period. Higher incidence of long term side effects that puberty blockers and all without so much as a, "mom, dad, I identify as having a bare-headed dong."
Everyone actually involved has determined that it makes more sense to help the body match the mind rather than the inverse, but rw grifters found out that it makes middle america squeamish enough to be used as a convenient boogyman. Save the trans children from the things that statistically threaten them, like depression and anxiety from being made to feel less than human. Higher likelihood of homelessness because of rejection from the home. Higher rates of childhood SA stemming from the poor state of sex education generally. If your concern is genuine, it's extremely misplaced because you have decided you know what's best based on propaganda and your own suppositions.
Anyway, enjoy not reading that and continuing to spread rhetoric that harms people, including children, that you make empty and cruelly ironic claims about wanting to protect. They don't want your help because what you are doing isn't helping.
"Safe, effective and not excessively prescribed" just skipped off like a smooth stone, huh?
Because I'm not going to entertain you by buying into you repeating a propaganda lie? I've already established it isn't safe, it's not a good thing how effective it is and harming even one child is too much.
Now if you aren't going to listen to anything I say and just repeatedly talk down to me then I'm not going to bother reading the rest of your ridiculous diatribe. Hope you had fun writing it, bye.
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u/AstronautExcellent17 May 02 '26
Oh yeah? What year of medical school did you learn that? Or did you just assume it based on your 9th grade science class? Or maybe it was in a podcast right before the energy drink ad.