Both: How do you feel about the High Court's decision in the Keira Bell case?

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[–]peakingatthemomentTranssexual (natal male), HSTS 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I completely agree with everything you said. Thank you for putting it so succinctly. 😊

We need to stop treating all these different things like they are the same. For boy whose GD presents before puberty, I feel like by 15 or 16, if they are insistent despite not being affirmed, they probably will continue to persist. GD for girls or GD that begins during puberty should be treated totally differently I feel like.

It’s really worrying that the unfulfilled wishes of trans adults affect these policies. I feel very strongly that a male who presents with GD at age 8 is probably dealing with something totally different than a male who presents with GD at age 28. Same with females.

[–]MarkTwainiac 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Also, boys' and girls' experience of puberty is entirely different.

For boys, staring puberty means nocturnal emissions/wet dreams, spontaneous erections, changes to genitals, pubic and body hair, acne, smelly pits and feet, moodiness, horniness. All of those can be unpleasant and embarrassing.

But for males, puberty also means lots of jerking off and sexual pleasure. And being treated as a young man by others.

For girls, puberty principally means developing breasts and spending days each month bleeding from the vagina, often with debilitating cramps and preceded by mood swings, depression, abdominal bloating, water weight gain, extremely sore breasts. There are often pains and discomforts that go with ovulation too.

Puberty for a female also means being acutely aware that you can get pregnant, be forced to carry to term, and die in childbirth or be saddled with a child for the next two decades. This awareness creates a vulnerability in pubescent girls that most males don't seem capable of relating to - or even imagining. In the fantasies of TIMs, it never gets a mention. Coz they think female puberty is all about girls having sexy slumber parties and pillow fights.

For girls, puberty also means being set upon, harassed and preyed upon by males of all ages who see you as meat ("a piece of ass") and who take your secondary sex characteristics to mean that you are less than human and have been put on earth to serve males and satisfy their sexual desires.

Being treated as young man and young woman in society are entirely different experiences.