• WoodScientist@lemmy.world
      10·
      7 days ago

      And you don’t see the glaring contradictions in your beliefs? You complain about non-passing trans people with one breath. With the next, you condemn minors receiving gender-affirming healthcare! The entire reason there’s a desire to not wait until kids are 18 is to avoid years of the wrong sex puberty that can make it very hard for trans people to assimilate into their gender as an adult!

      Critical thinking is dead.

    • smiletolerantly@awful.systems
      16·
      7 days ago

      I think the trans movement dug a deep hole for itself when it promoted transition surgery for minors.

      We didn’t. Noone is even advocating for that. That is 100% a right-wing straw-man.

      That works both ways though, when an “F” on the license is for someone who is 6’3" with quarterback shoulders and five-o’clock shadow.

      Exactly, and now there’s gonna be a ton of beardy, muscly men who are forced to revert to an “F” on their licenses.

      • 0x0@lemmy.zip
        13·
        7 days ago
        I think the trans movement dug a deep hole for itself when it promoted transition surgery for minors.

        We didn’t. Noone is even advocating for that. That is 100% a right-wing straw-man.

        I guess puberty-blockers are less invasive…

        • sureshot0@discuss.online
          2·
          7 days ago

          Puberty blockers were not advocated for by the community either.

          Trans people in the 80s and 90s would recommend runaways who joined their community to take sex hormones. They did not recommend surgery or puberty blockers to children or teens, ever.

          The modern trans community has been medicalized. The medical community recommends puberty blockers to minors, which the trans street community does not recommend. No one recommends surgery to minors, although it is sometimes allowed with teenagers over 16 in some rare cases, it is not “recommended.”