On April 8, 2015 the New York Times reported that President Obama has called for an “end to conversion therapy for gay and transgender youth.”
Somebody explain to me, please: If most children–especially girls–resolve gender dysphoria and grow up to be non-heterosexual adults (and study after study corroborates this finding), how is childhood “gender reassignment” not proactive conversion therapy to prevent adult homosexuality?
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@cutiequeercris said:
young kids arent given hormones or surgery. they are allowed to dress how they want and be treated as they want, and sometimes puberty is delayed. this means if the child does in fact identify with their assigned sex/gender later, they can continue with puberty; if that gender does not fit them, they can go through whatever medical transition they want without suffering massive dysphoria for years. its a win win
You missed one of the the main points of this post: The very fact that these kids are “identified” as transgender throughout their childhoods sets them up to think they are the opposite sex and transition later, when according to statistics that not even transgender activists dispute, most of them (if they weren’t ID’ed as “trans”) will not be dysphoric as adults–they will be gay!
So if it’s a win for anyone, it’s the minority (25% and even less in some studies) of these kids who actually have dysphoria when they grow up. Oh, and let’s not forget the psychiatric and medical establishment that will profit from their medical transition. A life-long cash cow.
The losers in the scenario currently touted by the transgender activists are the majority: the kids who would have just grown up to be gay, lesbian, or bisexual if the transgender brigade had only left them alone to be kids who don’t want to fit conventional gender stereotypes! KIDS who get to, yes, “dress how they want,” play how they want, and explore their identities and everything else about life. You know, be a KID. Without a bunch of adults labeling them with a different pronoun and filling them full of drugs which haven’t been adequately studied– and which could make them infertile as adults.
The APA has stated that delaying puberty is the proper course of action and the drugs have been studied and there is nothing that says they cause infertility. Allowing kids who id as trans to delay puberty until thy are older does not make them more likely to id as trans later: it means that if they do still id as such, they wont deal with massive dysphoria, and if they do decide to id as their assigned sex, thy havent transitioned
Also many trans ppl will tell you that theyve known since they were very young who they were. Its a win win situation
Also there are plenty of lgb trans people. Trans women are not just “super gay men” nor are trans men “super gay women” like? Please talk to some actual trans people
There have been no studies on longterm effects of children taking Lupron/puberty blockers.
https://gendertrender.wordpress.com/2013/07/20/abbott-laboratories-studies-have-not-been-completed-in-children-to-determine-the-full-reversibility-of-fertility-suppression/
There have, however, been many instances of children and women being horribly and permanently altered, and sometimes created infertile by Lupron.
http://lupronvictimshub.com/risks.html
i would rather give kids puberty blockers and run the risk of them being infertile than have them kill themselves because of dypshoria and unsupportive family
How is the only choice medical transition or suicide? Prepubescent kids aren’t commonly suicidal. As for teens, this is an excerpt from a post I wrote earlier:
But maybe, just maybe, some of these young people want to die because 21st century society has given them the message that they cannot live their lives legitimately and happily in the bodies they were born in if they do not conform to gender stereotypes. That if they don’t like “girly” things or are “sissy boys,” or if they identify with and enjoy pursuits and body ornamentation traditionally associated with the opposite sex, they and their families must push for a medical diagnosis that will commit them to a chronic, expensive health condition involving lifelong drug treatment and repeated plastic surgeries; that they will have to live like Type 1 diabetics, requiring treatment for the rest of their lives. How can all of this pressure to conform not contribute to a sense of hopelessness and despair?
And here’s one of the responses to that post:
re: your post on Blake Brockington’s suicide, something that the trans community absolutely refuses to discuss is how much they themselves promote the “transition or suicide” narrative to young gender-questioning people. the blog “Transgender Reality” is documenting cases on reddit where often very young teenagers are egged on by peers and older trans people to go from “I don’t really feel like a boy/girl” to “if I don’t get hormones now I’ll kill myself” in literal days. it’s frightening.