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[–]WildwoodFlower 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I am guessing that most of the people who think it's okay for someone "under 18" is thinking of a 16 or 17-year-old who wants to go on cross-sex hormones*; they aren't thinking of a 9-11 year old child taking blockers.

*Not that I agree with giving cross-sex hormones to teenagers, but there are teens that age who take birth control pills, so I can see how some adults would follow that kind of logic.

[–]worried19[S] 19 insightful - 1 fun19 insightful - 0 fun20 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Oh, almost certainly. I am sure that the average person has zero idea that children in the USA are being put on estrogen and testosterone as young as 11 or 12 and that hundreds of mastectomies have been performed on kids as young as 13.

The mainstream media is too chickenshit to run an expose to bring these facts to anyone's attention. If they did, I'm confident there would be a massive outcry.

[–]MarkTwainiac 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

My impression is that pretty much all the mainstream media in the USA is gung-ho FOR for these medical interventions being done on kids. Media outlets like NBC, ABC, CBS, The NYTimes, National Geographic, Netflix and tons more have all run/made oodles of material celebrating "trans children" and kids taking blockers, cross-sex hormones and getting surgeries such as double mastectomies and the kinds of genital surgeries Jazz Jennings had whilst still a minor.

What's more, women who are major players in the MSM have been gung-ho PRO child and adolescent transition for years. Such as Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Degeneres and the women of The View.

[–]arcticbasket 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Of course - the entertainment industry will reap great rewards by creating reality TV based on these train wreck lives.

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

But it's not just the entertainment industry. This is being celebrated by the so-called news industry too. Not that there's much difference between entertainment and news these days - entertainment and news organizations are all vying for clicks, consumers/customers and ad revenues.