Democrat Introduces Bill To Ban Minors From Getting Transgender-Reassignment Surgery, Treatments (State, not federal govt., but still good news!)

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[–]dreamgerms 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

“This bill isn’t anti-trans,” McKnight said. “I just don’t think to make a sex change during the teen years is something someone should do.”

It’s nice to see Democrats and people who are not conservative start to introduce these bills and speak out against this. This isn’t just a “conservative issue”. It’s about protecting kids, and not letting doctors essentially experiment on children and teenagers in ways that will effect them permanently.

[–]SuperGayIsOkay 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, this is exactly the sort of thing we need to see more of. The people who are claiming this as "transphobia", I wonder how many of them realize that hormone treatments early on can lead to unintentional complications such as osteoporosis, or to something like Jazz Jennings where his penis literally did not develop enough to have enough tissue to do a vaginoplasty, and he may never experience an orgasm?

The lie of course, is that not rushing kids into transition is somehow leading them to suicide, when the data suggests that transition doesn't actually reduce suicidality at all (which further suggests that surgical transition isn't the cure-all they'd like it to be to make themselves happy).

[–]dreamgerms 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The entire act of threatening suicide if one doesn’t get the elective surgery or medical intervention they want should invalidate that person from receiving said treatments. Especially when those surgeries or medications, like you said, haven’t even been proven to alleviate mental anguish, and come with life-long consequences. I think liberals/Democrats who are concerned about trans issues need to frame their arguments this way, and focus on protecting children and people from unethical or dangerous medical treatments. I think most reasonable people would see through the false accusations of “transphobia” and see it for what it is.

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

Yes, it's going beyond the concept of being involved in one's own healthcare, and it's outright dictating that you know better than trained health professionals, and if you don't get the trendy treatment you want, regardless of how useful it actually is, you'll emotionally blackmail anyone and everyone to get it.

There is a reasonable point where a qualified doctor will say "no" to their patient because the treatment being demanded is not medically useful for the thing being treated.