QUOTE(Necromusume @ Mar 26 2023, 18:33)

I grew up when there was no social support for trans kids at all, and vicious treatment, brainwashing and gaslighting by their parents, teachers, and everyone around them to try to bully them into not being trans was the norm. That is equally wrong. It also didn't work.
And I actually do not recommend surgery, because the surgical options are still too crude.
Pretty much the opposite here, discrimination against LGBT has been declining rapidly for decades. I was involved with an org that had clinical psychologists that helped 18+ individuals gain access to psychological support, hormone therapy and some with surgical options.
Back then, lowering the age against medical and psychological evidence was pushed by far far lefties. Usually the social constructionists. Their balance of welling and welfare must be professionally considered. Affirm at all costs is already showing major problems that were not seen in older individuals that transitioned. These are not surprises but people are acting like they didn't know.... Its horrifying if they really did not know.
The arguments against transitioning children, especially with surgery:
1 Through puberty individuals sense of self is still developing, increase anxiety, neuroticism and developing self awareness of your personality / sexuality etc is normal.
2 Actual trans due to genetic anomalies, females exposed to high androgen levels in womb (increase probability of Lesbian but also masculine traits), and most common fetal developmental as embros start as female but there are also immunology effects that increase the probability of more feminine males (increase probability of being gay, but also increase feminine traits) are not that common. Decades of research based on the view that sexuality is determined by biology puts LG in the range of 4-12% and Trans in the 0.5-2% range.
3. The misdiagnosis of autism is alarming, and very common. The self-misdiagnosis of anxiety disorders and depression in young girls is becoming common. Gay boys have are vanishing as a demographic in some areas against all evidence. 30% of girls suddenly being trans in high school is the same pattern seen with other psychological contagion among this peer group involving eating disorders, anxiety/depression, recently (2022) tourette syndrome. Many of the girls think they are trans because of other mental health issues and usually informal affirmation.
4. The suppression of estrogen is catastrophic for women for their health. Estrogen has protective factors. After 2 years girls are showing neural degeneration, heart issues, bone issues, clotting issues, hardening of arteries and of the people that de-transition by their 20s 20-30% are showing fertility issues.
For boys testosterone suppression affects development of a ton of organs, bones and muscle. The steroid effect of testosterone offsets the genetic disadvantages XY chromosomes eg for immune system and heart.
Depending on duration, our therapies are way more advanced for males, so they can make a full recovery after 6-12 months on PCT or replacement androgens and T, if they were not castrated... Depends on the duration though. After 10 years they may have to go on TRT forever if they de-transition.
5. Artificial hormones do not replicate the actual regulation of hormones and natural levels in the body. The endocrine systems are interlinked and there are complex down stream and upstream interactions of primary, secondary and tertiary hormonal products. There are also complex endocrine modulations and homeostasis /regulatory systems that are ignored when transing the children.
The arguments for:
- Suicide rate: massively misquoted. Its the same as for men, and unfortunately we don't care about men, so its weird that its an issue. (that could be a fairly autistic take).
QUOTE(Necromusume @ Mar 26 2023, 16:42)

Well, the reason for that is, because passability dramatically increases as people start hormone replacement earlier.
This is where its more the domain of ethical debate, I can not concretely say anything if I am 100% honest but it is an assessment of risks and benefits. Many of the people pushing for early transition are from the failed social constructionist movement whose experiments all failed horrifyingly by the 2000 with massive ethics violations and suicides. The idea that if you just start young enough then they will definitely become the other gender. This view assumes people are not born the way that they are. The education system also treats all boys as defective girls now, though that is another issue.
"Doctor arbitrarily assigns sex, then society does not affirm, if only we put people on hormones and started surgery earlier they would be accepted by society and society constructs people's sex."
I believe people are born the way that they are whether that is LG or T. Its tricky with trans but we do know the probability of being LG or autistic is many fold higher.
Even if you transition early you can not change people more than the limits of the environmental impact on gene expression. We are also seeing that people transition early with full affirmation are still ending up depressed and anxious. As my position since 2010, we must balance the risks.
Older trans people tend to be more pragmatic, it seems to be people that are 14-25 that mostly hold the belief that they believe they should have transitioned early to be accepted by generally poorly defined cohort and relying on external validation.
Dating as a trans will be more difficult, it is already more limited if you are LG. Basing your identity on external approval is dangerous for your mental health.
Then unfortunately there are the people that fetishize transition that wish other people or themselves to transition earlier for their own reasons, "gender euphoria". I believe they aren't considering the welfare of the children at all. I hope they are a minority but they seem to congregate on social media.
Neo-pronouns seem like a great way to guarantee depression and mental health issues. You are scrambling your internal classification system, relying heavily on heuristic classification which is inaccurate and putting a gigantic amount of your self esteem in external validation. Putting your self esteem and self efficacy all in external validation is well studied for creating issues. Scrambling your classification systems mentally is well established as artificially leading to psychosis/neuroticism and where it occurs involuntarily schizophernia. It is also correlated with general anxiety. So good luck with that. We do have correlative evidence that there is a high correlation between neo-pronouns and mental health issues. We do not know causation yet, but in other areas we do...
People with poorly developed self constructs or that rely on external validation are well evidenced to have issues. Whether that applies to people using neo-pronouns and to what extent I do not know.
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Mar 26 2023, 20:15)

That's like the "if we allow gay marriage, people will be wanting to legalize pedophilia/necrophilia/zoophilia next" argument that people were using a decade ago.
California and LA are going still hard on those issues except necro.
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Mar 26 2023, 20:15)

Also there are actual biological, non-menopausal, non-child XX women who can't get pregnant. Just a reminder.
Always a woman because they were born a woman... What is the actual argument here? Also lefties want to call women birthing persons, to also define them by that feature.
Side fact: CCP has a database whether you are birth ready as a woman. They did make trans illegal though and certain races... Not sure if authoritarian left or totalitarian right? Maybe they will become the true nazbol, socialism for us but not for you.
edit: Speed run because this post is already automatically a shit post at this length. QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Mar 26 2023, 20:15)

"ThINk oF ThE ChiLDreN" is one of my least favorite arguments in almost any circumstance, this one included.
On a topic about transitioning children you do not consider child welfare. On irrelevant topics it is a meme. Many of the trans law are being created with the same fanatic energy as the evangelical Christians, also with moralizing and protesting debate....
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Mar 26 2023, 20:15)

To put it in a computing analogy,
You can try to patch Windows into Linux but it will be a mess.
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Mar 26 2023, 20:15)

Regarding possible health risks of hormones, I'll take a moment to point out that pickles are carcinogenic.
Barely, like you will increase your risk slightly if you over consume. The salt is a higher risk. You can also mediate your risks by a balance diet or eating pickles that use different pickling agents. It is fairly easy to consider the risks and benefits. Some pickles reduce your risk of some forms of cancer in the gut.
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Mar 26 2023, 20:15)

living is a health risk. We seem to have no issue with prescribing everyone adderall, antidepressants, and/or painkillers.
These are also massive problems. Also its big pharma pushing both over prescription and early expensive hormonal therapies. At the moment I'd say over prescription of drugs is a bigger problem than transing kids. Numbers of both are rising, but over prescription has a huge head start. George Floyd's life was ruined by over prescription of painkillers that lead to his life self destructing to the point he OD'd and died whilst being arrested for being the fall guy for using forged currency. He actually had worked with Derrek Chauvin in the past before his injury that lead to becoming addicted to pain killers. Its weird story.
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Mar 26 2023, 20:15)

If I say "we need to take away everyone's guns because otherwise one guy might make a bad decision and hurt themselves or someone else," some of the same people who are so up in arms against trans people right now would be outraged.
We took away the majority of guns here because one dude did make a bad decision. For handguns and higher power fire-arms there are loads of background checks, mental health checks and long waiting times. There are strict storage requirements and restrictions on what can be owned. There is a degree of common sense if you have valid uses and weigh up the benefits and risks.
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Mar 26 2023, 20:15)

But if I say "we need to take away kids' ability to determine their gender identity because otherwise someone might make a mistake" then they'll all just nod and see no contradiction.
Very young children have no clue about their gender identity. Now once we get to puberty, their gender identity is still developing for males till like 18-25 and females usually by 18-20. We are potentially intervening artificially whilst their gender identity is not developed biologically in the hopes it will help their social gender identity for when they are older.
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Mar 26 2023, 20:15)

US's general apathy towards people's happiness after they're born (though we seem to care an awful lot about them before they're born).
All the psychological treatments, and drugs were designed to make people not unhappy in the short term with very little focus on long term happiness. Most of the perspectives on trans affirmation are based on the 80s movement which self destructed catastrophically because their interventions maximized unhappiness. It all just became popular again from 2012 on wards after the horrors faded from recent memory.
I can't see them doing anything different which is the problem... not properly informing people, being overzealous in the positive prescription, leaning too excessively on external validation, pushing through early intervention without information about the risk and with poor support afterwards. The diagnostics have actually gotten worse, like a kid can say something once and that is sufficient in some areas now. The experts are also focused on affirmation and blind to the risks.
Surgeons are coming out that early hormonal intervention screws over the possibility of MTF transition later.
If lefties really cared about abortion rights that had decades to approve legislation, and it was Brandon's arguments for forced medical interventions that broke the camels back. Lefties could have also forced the vote, when they controlled both houses but did not. You get war and banker bail outs instead.
QUOTE(dragontamer8740 @ Mar 26 2023, 20:15)

I guess it means we still affirm in the right of trans kids to take the other way out (with a handgun), instead?
If we want to make more people lonely and/or dead, we've been doing a great job of it.
Blind affirmation is not decreasing anxiety and depression, just medical complications... which increase anxiety and depression. Misdiagnosis is also increasing anxiety and depression.
Canada is offering assisted suicide for trans now and they are some of the most progressive for trans rights, supposedly.
TLDRTransition in your 30-40 large percentage still unhappy.
Transition when you are 18, still a large percent still unhappy
Transition when you are 12, still a large percentage still unhappy
Transition when you are 6-9, still a large percentage still unhappy.
In the 90s the experiment that crashed the movement for a decade... we transitioned them at birth.... outcome.. still unhappy.
Now we are like, maybe if we have 100% positive and constant daily affirmation.... nope still unhappy.
By unhappy I mean clinical anxiety, depression and other issues. We lopped the dicks off at zero and it did not make a difference. Its almost like we are misdiagnosing something. Yes there are trans people, yes they face discrimination, but.... maybe we need to make balanced and reasonable decisions for children.
This post has been edited by EsotericSatire: Mar 27 2023, 11:02