He also said he's against healthcare for trans youth in his most recent tirade. As somebody who is trans, and who not only didn't have the opportunity to transition in adolescence but had a surgical procedure to force a puberty I didn't want, I am extremely against government restrictions.
Like, nobody with a major platform is letting us speak for ourselves. It's just cisgender pundits and a trio of captured interests like Brianna Wu being allowed to tell lies about us and our healthcare.
I’m really grateful to hear your voice. I have a handful of trans friends, but nobody that has been in school within the past decades. Trans adulthood feels more clear. Trans youth feel, to me, to be navigating through an incredibly difficult time that demands more than youth have. Thoughts?
My thoughts are that we should be trusted to know ourselves at such a fundamental level and that the process we already had in-place to assess kids was working phenomenally to filter out false positives. Of all kids who transition medically, 98% stay the course. Why are we now prioritizing the 2%?
Like, prioritizing the 2% by banning transition does three things: 1. It establishes that being trans is an undesired outcome 2. It compels permanent deformity & trauma onto the 98% 3. It fails to acknowledge that most detransitions happen due to outside pressures and not internal desire
It’s tough and I feel like it’s so specific to each person that it should be left to that individual. My daughter is trans and I spent time working through my stuff, and it was my stuff to deal with, not hers.
Yes. Everybody's care plan is tailored to their needs. For kids, having some additional assessment and using blockers to allow more time to decide were already the compromise position to make cisgender society less nervous about it. Ideally, hormones should start where puberty would normally start.
Yep. That staged approach is wisdom.
Tell me if I’m off base. For me, a cis man, saying someone that is trans can’t proceed with their medical care is like telling a woman she can’t have an abortion. We shouldn’t dictate other people’s personal issues, we should support without people needing to make us feel ok with their choices.
And, people have the right to make bad decisions, so the few that go back, it’s ok. Still, nobodies business.
Exactly. The government has no business legislating regret. They aren't banning marriage, having children, etc. and there's mountains of regret for those things.
Sorry I’m not on here a lot, as I appreciate your perspectives a lot. What a great point, divorce is regrets, business closing is regret, heck having kids could be regret. Yet, those aren’t legislated like trans healthcare, and they are way more prevalent!