[–] Guyven 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
When kids socially transition, she explained, their parents not only become their champions to teachers and other parents, but also often start engaging in trans advocacy that comes to define them in important ways. If the child starts to sense that their dysphoria is desisting, they’re faced with either sticking with a gender identity that no longer feels like it fits or telling their parents, as the clinician put it, “This whole life that you’ve created for yourself as an advocate, I don’t want to be part of that anymore.”
I sense a very strong impulse to avoid stating the obvious conclusion that any 'conservative' or 'middling' approach to throwing all confused children as hard as possible toward being locked in as trans... is seen as a threat to the filling of the ranks of those who will fight alongside these present activists. You're disrupting their enlistment initiative, plainly. They will vehemently deny such, and you're a bigot for thinking it. But it is so painfully obvious, and a conflict of interest for an advocate to advocate for an outcome that strengthens his position by enlisting others by default. "Caution" is their enemy... because "radical action" is required to lock in that first uninformed choice. Then how hard is it to leave them? Quote above implies: Very hard, Uncle Tom, very hard.
In a world where we have to write an 11,000 word essay to say without saying what the tactic is all about, it's no wonder we can't have a clear debate. "Gender Affirmative" == "aggressive recruitment." I know, I'm such an everything-phobe.
[–] sunderkeenin 0 points 9 points 9 points (+9|-0) ago (edited ago)
I wonder how many kids this is going to hurt in the long term. Today is a sad day for those who do their due diligence. Pandering to unstable children by permanently setting them in their unstable state can only be a bad thing. I wonder how many transgender kids are just actually homosexual and afraid to say it.
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[–] sunderkeenin 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Yup. Kids are innocent, naive, and pure. They don't know about politics or hard decisions or anything. It's best to let them develop, and once they have this maturity thing then the hard decisions can actually begin.
[–] nomenimion 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago (edited ago)
Giving a child hormones in a vain effort to turn them into the opposite sex is child abuse, in my opinion. This should only be allowed for adults who can make an informed decision.
[–] 2095conash ago (edited ago)
I personally don't necessarily think that it's child abuse (though I certainly won't argue that it isn't), but I ultimately agree with your sentiments. Personally I would like there to be more studies done into gender dismorphia in children, there potentially may be some more 'objective' criteria that could be used to better understand when it's say a child confused, curious, or just experimenting and when it's legitimately a physical condition. I've heard that it's easier to transition if you're before puberty, which does make sense if you ask me, but conversely without some 'objective' criteria for telling when a child is transgender and when they're just being a child I ultimately feel that more harm than good would come out of letting children transition.
But those are just my thoughts.