Rugoz wrote:Children should not make such a decision on their own, and doctors/psychologists should not make it lightly. Children should not be making any decision.
There is a reason why you cannot get a tattoo until 18. That's because it is a permanent alteration. Nothing is more permanent that puberty blockers and surgeries. Psychiatrists are the only people who should be involved in therapy and this should not to "affirm" someone's delusions. That's not what therapy is, That's indoctrination.
Rugoz wrote:Banning gender affirmation surgery for adolescents is simply dumb though.
No. It's not. Their gender is the one they were born with. Anything more is gender NON-affirming care. If you are born with male genitalia and XY chromosomes, then you are male(exceptions are just that, and your gender that is that of a man).
They should have therapy, since most of the problems come from mental illness other than gender dysphoria, but no alterations should be possible until they are adults and can make informed consent. It should not be up to parents or doctors to make permanent alterations and the recent trend of people de-transitioning is telling.
The argument regarding suicide reduction is an ideological lie and they've found that transitioning does not reduce suicides amongst trans people.
Rugoz wrote:The procedure has been performed for decades, and nobody gave a shit.
False. This has not been done for decades. That's a outright LIE. There's a reason why the Sweden recently change it's policies on this. It was NOT done on children for decades, either.
Sweden puts brakes on treatments for trans minorsSweden decided in February 2022 to halt hormone therapy for minors except in very rare cases, and in December, the National Board of Health and Welfare said mastectomies for teenage girls wanting to transition should be limited to a research setting.
"The uncertain state of knowledge calls for caution," Board department head Thomas Linden said in a statement in December.
So-called puberty blockers have been used in young teens contemplating gender transition to delay the onset of unwanted physical changes.https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 ... ans-minorsNote: Puberty blockers used for any length of time(beyond used to stop early onset puberty on pre-teens) cause sterility/infertility, amongst a great many other side effects, like osteoporosis.
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