Anonymous asked:
4thwavenow answered:
TransActive, a child-transition-pushing organization in Portland, Oregon, lobbied hard for that change. They believe these kids have the cognitive wherewithal to make these decisions. They celebrate parents being cut out of the process. The director of that organization believes that 2-year-olds have innate gender identity. And they want to help other states lower the age of medical consent, as it is in Oregon. The general public needs to understand where this is all heading. See more here:
Yet my state is one of the worst in the nation for sexual assault, almost 50% of women in Oregon are sexually assaulted in their lifetime, and don’t seem to give one little fuck about that
TransActive has nothing to do with it. Oregon recognizes a teenager’s right to medical privacy. It’s the same policy that allows girls to get abortions and birth control without their parents’ involvement.
TransActive has *everything* to do with it, with their incessant pushing of the idea that kids have the cognitive wherewithal to decide to be permanently sterilized, and to make other irreversible changes via hormones and surgeries. Suggesting that this comes down to a simple question of “medical privacy”, and equating abortions and birth control with these kinds of irrevocable decisions, makes no sense at all. This is a NEW addition to Oregon law, and child transition pushers like TransActive want to see kids able to do this in every state in the nation. Sorry, but until recently, no one in their right mind would advocate for kids with primitive executive function skills to cut their parents out of extreme medical treatments like this. Read the linked article. Adult transgenders are using kids to validate their own ADULT choices, not to mention to make money for surgeons, endocrinologists, and “gender therapists.” Since when is turning kids into permanent medical patients a good thing? Yeah, kids can get birth control as teens, but until this trans thing, no surgeon would have given a girl a complete hysterectomy as a teen as “birth control.” Right? But now, because everyone is collaborating in a delusion that a girl is really a boy, she gets to go get a hysterectomy with no questions asked. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Okay. I don’t know if I should say this since it runs the risk of exposing my identity. But I’m going to anyway, because holy shit. I went to TransActive for my therapy, they were the ones to write my hormone letter and my letter to get my driver’s license marker changed. I was given these at 17. During the course of my therapy, I started having flashbacks of the CSA I experienced for the first time. The therapist there gave me one amateur session of EMDR (which, uh, doesn’t work in one session, it’s supposed to be an ongoing thing) and that was about it. No processing or recovery necessary before getting this traumatized teenager on hormones!
Thank you for your courage in writing this response. You aren’t the only one with an experience like this (as I’m sure you likely know). Amongst trans activists (and TransActive is an activist organization), it has become taboo to talk about other issues that might contribute to a young person wanting to escape his or her sexed body. “Transition” is marketed as the answer to all a teen’s problems, and it’s no wonder the kid–and their parents–believe it.
Thanks again for speaking up. I hope your willingness to do so will help others to do the same.
