It’s a question meant to take advantage of the emotions and love of a parent, to convince them to permanently alter their child, who is at a confused stage in life when they are still developing both mentally and physically, when there is no actual evidence to support the decision. Yes, that is evil
respect, you started off strong! it is indeed a question intended to *evoke emotion* that is not a bad thing bc even *if* all of your caveats are correct (and they are not), the choice still comes down to "respect and accept a young person as human with agency" vs "see them suffer"
There is room to show respect somewhere between “ see them suffer” and permanently alter a kid during their developmental stage in life
choosing to withhold appropriate care from a trans child causes suffering even when that appropriate care is simply accepting that they are trans and i get the sense that you are unwilling to do even that
Accepting them as trans is a fine middle ground option. It’s the puberty blockers and surgery that are not appropriate care
that belief is contradicted by science and evidence you'd be telling a minor in your care "i accept you in all your beauty, i accept your gender and will call you by your name and use appropriate pronouns... ...but you don't get to have anything more than that, even if it causes you pain"
You want a tattoo? Sorry, it’s permanent and you can’t make a decision for something like that when you’re this young. You might regret it later. You want to buy cigarettes? No, those will harm your still developing body. You want to chop your penis off? Great! Let’s schedule it for next week!
Do whatever you want when you’re an adult. It’s insane to me that we are allowing these surgeries to be done to kids.
i'm genuinely sorry that you have been given incorrect information but no trans minor in the us, canada, or the uk has genital surgery none, zippo, zilch minor children do not have their genitals surgically altered it does not happen who told you it does?
Chilren have a right for their medicine, its not a tattoo, it is parents who have always had the right of consent for any medicine to their children, what you are suggering is a classic example fo child abuse, ppl like you shoudl be in jail if thats what you do. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
This is why they SHOULD be getting onto HRT right away and not blockers, this is why it is recommended by many countries across Europe. I have helped dozens of kids to get on HRT myself as we all should.
There are deeply misguided people out there like you trying to save only non-trans children by a belief that a child can’t consent to a hormonal treatment without realizing they can’t consent to their puberty either, youre just choosing to damage their body. and THAT is pure evil!!!
The longest and most extensive study on the matter recently found that out of 720 trans teenagers who started hormone therapy half a decade ago, 98% were still continuing their treatment today. Desistance and detransition myths are lies designed to create panic and a transphobic backlash.
Every major medical organization disagrees with you for a reason and suicide rates among trans youth have increased as much as 72% because of misinformed people like yourself. There has been plenty of actual evidence that support this!
No that child is NOT confused, and that is the point, the evil thing is to disregard what thieir body needs, pushing them into the wrong puberty IS the evil thing. Getting your correct hormones in your brain MEASURABLY corrects things at a neurological level. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
yes, your post is quite evil.