Skimmed that, and you seem to be focusing on adolescents a lot. There are in fact adult trans people too, and they can feel marginalized as well.
Infertility's fine, we have too many people already and enough humans are still fertile to be able to maintain or increase population. Also I've been told that trans women, for instance, don't lose their erectile tissue if they continue to use it. It's only if it's not used that it atrophies. The balls though, yeah, those do apparently shrink regardless.
IMO, infertility would be a small price to pay to possibly not hate myself.
Regarding children/adolescents: at the very least, kids who think or know they're trans could take testosterone inhibitors for instance if they want to wait it out and reflect a while while preventing things like vocal cord changes.
I'm a hetero XY male btw, just extending empathy and assuming people who want to do something drastic like this understand what they're doing.
Anyway, I don't consider anything sacred, sexuality/gender included. Even
if you consider these people to be ruining their bodies, I think that the decision to do so should be up to them rather than me.
And IDK, I might be a bit out of touch but I was born in the mid-to-late 90's and never encountered a single instance of someone being pressured to be trans. I don't think my younger brother has either. I'm sure it has happened somewhere just because of demographics being what they are, but I suspect that it's blown out of proportion.
Also, if more people identify as trans than ever before, just maybe that's because they feel safer doing so now than they would have in the 60's or the 90's. I don't see that as an inherently negative thing.
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Currently this is the only medical field that has been dominated by positive affirmation rather than informed consent with risk mediation.
I mean, they do get informed on what starting hormone therapy for instance is going to do to them, and that not everything's reversible. And they have to consent to that. If it weren't required still, then we'd be able to buy estrogen or testosterone pills without a prescription.
This post has been edited by dragontamer8740: Jul 13 2021, 21:22