I want the believers in “truly transgender” kids to answer this one, simple question. Give me your answer. One kid? Two? Fifteen? Come on, step up, be brave. It’s so damned important that these kids get on puberty blockers and then cross sex hormones ASAP so they don’t have to experience their dreadful natural puberty.
What’s your plan for the kids you–oops–accidentally misdiagnosed as “trans” who actually weren’t? What do you have in mind for their need for services? What about their rate of suicidality when they eventually realize the horror that was perpetrated on them by the adults who were supposed to protect them, not give in to their every demand?
Do you give a damn about those kids? If so, what’s the plan?
Well what about your own kid you can’t handle or respect their ferlings about transition on? What about the fact that most of the incredibly fake youth transition fighting is over MtF’s in which modt of you in any others trans discourse are utter poop to? No….4thwavenow and others are freaking over their kidd and everyone else is freaking over the fact that a generation or two of youth transition will break down a whole lot of radfem arguments.
Well, if this is the level of discussion your side can engage in (”ferlings” and “modt” and “kidd” aren’t actually words) and three or four garbled strings of words that you think are sentences, but aren’t, I’m thinking that a whole lot of adults are going to see this debate for exactly what it is: Concerned adults with real arguments on one side and childish tantrum-throwers on the other.
And they don’t answer the question: How many kids is it OK to sterilize? The answer is a number.
If your answer is “zero,” then you can’t justify blockers+cross-sex hormones for any kid, because it’s impossible to prevent false positives. You do the ethical thing and only allow medical transition for adults. Full stop.
If your answer is a number greater than zero, then you are saying it’s perfectly fine to sacrifice the future fertility–and overall happiness–of a person who will one day realize they are not “trans.” You are saying it’s more important to continue the clinical crap shoot that bets some of these prepubescent kids are going to be hunky-dory as adults with all the hormones and surgeries you are setting them up for–as well as destroying their fertility.
The fact that no one in the media or in trans circles is even publicly discussing this as the huge ethical dilemma it is speaks volumes about who is really being served by the medicalization of supposedly “trans” children. Hint: It’s not the children.
