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[–]HouseplantWomen who disagree with QT are a different sex[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Can we really compare the voluntary removal of sexual function and skipping school or getting drunk or driving a car? I can’t see how they are comparable.

In what way do you feel skipping a day of school and the inability to experience sexual desire or pleasure in ten years time are similar?

You have made some intriguing changes in your diktats here. first you decreed the only thing to do is give any child that requests them hormones because it doesn’t matter that they may never gain sexual function as adults because you do not take issue with a lack of sexual desire/function.

You were asked why you feel you can apply those feelings to others, and now you phrase the question as though all children can and have confirmed that they do indeed consent to this, and state that I am trying to make personal medical decisions for people. On the basis that I..what? Question a line of treatments as a whole?

Even if I possessed the capacity to control someone else’s healthcare, I’m not in favour of issuing sweeping gestures like totally allowing or disallowing things.

That’s not even touching on the neurodevelopmental stuff we’re skipping over, which would all indicate that a prepubescent child does not possess the capacity to make decisions for their adult selves.

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I’m not in favour of issuing sweeping gestures like totally allowing or disallowing things.

It's called bodily autonomy and it's absolute, so.

In what way do you feel skipping a day of school and the inability to experience sexual desire or pleasure in ten years time are similar?

Skipping school could be the cause of someone not going to college 4 years later and having a smaller income 10 years later, I think they're very similar decisions with huge effects. Also like not having sexual function is not a huge deal if you also lack sexual desire. Not if the alternative is having to have that desire in a body with parts you hate.