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[–]emptiedriver 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is an excellent comparison. Even if detransition is a tiny percentage (which as we know it probably isn't) it is still a very important potential error and needs to be taken seriously. If you really support trans rights, you should be highlighting this not hiding it - don't let people make what will turn out to be a tragic choice that casts a shadow over the whole movement. It's not for everyone, obviously! But, all the same, almost everyone has a range of feelings about their body and who they are, especially in adolescence, so it's not surprising that given the option plenty of young girls would be open to physically altering themselves... piercing, tattoos, starvation, surgery, linked experiments in a common search.

If being trans is a healthy medical prescription that should be recognized as necessary and protected, not just adolescent trends, then why stop gatekeeping? It seems like it would only result in positive outcomes...