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[–]MarkTwainiac 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Many of those issues are due to blockers; we should be giving teens cross-sex hormones instead, the same way we would for adults. They can desist or detransition later.

Who is the "we" here?

Why are adult trans activists so intent on issuing diktats saying other people's minor children should be given powerful prescription drugs and artificial hormones that will impede their natural development and impair their sexual function?

Most of the tweens and teens seeking medical "transition" today are females. I'm wondering why you think you have sufficient insight and expertise on the health of female children, adolescents and adults to dictate that during their tweens and teens, large numbers of girls should be put on exogenous Big Pharma testosterone - an addictive, harmful substance whose manufacture, sale and use in most jurisdictions is tightly controlled because of the dangers it poses to human health, particularly the health of developing females.

The former GDR (East Germany) did a de facto large-scale experiment showing that regularly dosing human females with exogenous testosterone/androgens during their tween, teen and 20s has devastating, totally irreversible effects on their near-term, medium-term and long-term physical health and mental wellbeing, and shortens their lives. Why would you wish this horrible fate on so many girls today?

Do you make posts dictating what medical treatments other groups of youngsters - particularly girls - should get? Or just girls who are distressed about gender and sex issues - girls who if allowed to develop naturally and with proper mental health support might grow up to be strong "GNC" women unwilling to take shit from males - no matter how the males say they identify?

Hmm, what's up with that?

With whole groups bearing down on you bent on erasing you from existence

I can relate to this 100% because I feel that that whole groups, including trans activists, are bearing down on people like me, hell bent on erasing us from existence.

Grownups of the sex that has given birth to every man, woman, boy and girl ever to have lived - and have done by far the bulk raising children - are increasingly being told we no longer can have the sports, spaces, services and rights that generations of women fought tooth and nail to obtain. Indeed, we're no longer even allowed to have any words for ourselves and our own "lived experience."

Woman, girl, lady, female, mother, sister, daughter, aunt, she, her - males have laid claim to all the words for people like me. People like me have been informed by people like you that we are now a second-class subset of our own sex class, and in the name of "inclusion" we must be called dehumanizing terms like "cis," menstruators, cervix-owners, uterus havers, carriers, gestators, birthing bodies, bodies with vaginas, chestfeeders, old bints, dried up cxnts, whxres, dinosaurs, Karens, bleeders and the like.

At the same time, the female body part that people like me use for activities like menstruating and giving birth no longer can be called a vagina, because according to orgs like the HRC, that's a word that people like you have decided to appropriate for yourselves. So now the part of my body that used to be considered part of the "birth canal" is now to be called "front hole" - and other such neologisms as "Barbie pouch."

On top of this, when people like me protest our dehumanization, erasure and the constant abuse we get from gender identity ideologues - particularly the male ones, but not exclusively the male ones, sadly - we're told that advocating for ourselves and having any kinds of boundaries that cause us ever to say "no" to the males who insist they are us is now bigotry, hatred and violence akin to the racist white supremacy that led to Naziism, the Holocaust and apartheid.

You really think your group is the one group in all the world that suffers the most "minority stress"?

Jan Morris lived until 94. Morris said that in more than 50 years living openly as "male to female transsexual," Morris never suffered a moment of "minority stress" due to to Morris's unusual "gender identity." Morris remained just as celebrated after "transition" as Morris was beforehand - in fact, Morris raked in more awards and accolades. Morris apparently never suffered any inconvenience due to gender identity either, as Morris's devoted wife stuck around till the end. The dutiful wife raised their 5 kids pretty much singlehandedly whilst Jan continued focusing on career achievements post-transition just as single-mindedly as pre-transition, kept house, made all of Jan's food, did Jan's laundry, researched Jan's projects, typed Jan's manuscripts, and until Jan's dying breath, always put Jan first.