"Trans men" and "trans women" are bashing the uk court's decision to ban puberty blockers, saying that puberty blockers have no adverse effects, and that it's fine to "let a kid hit pause on their body for a couple years"

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[–]lovelyspearmintLesbeing a lesbian 26 insightful - 2 fun26 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

They act as if suicide rates aren't high in teenagers anyway. Also name-calling is 83%? That's what high school is like, even if you're straight. I'm sure more than 83% of gay, bi and lesbian kids have experienced name-calling, but that's not important to the TQ crowd, is it now?

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Everybody gets called names at school anyway. Most forms of bullying at school involve spreading rumours about students, excluding students from events, getting students in trouble or theft. But let’s all weep for those poor brave children who were called names. Which does suck, yes, but this specific issue of name calling can be solved by bring up a child’s self esteem and giving him or her an outlet to participate in their hobbies and make friends. I’ve been called names at school, just like everybody else, and I’ve also called people names and talked shit, which I’m not proud of, but it happened. Most of these victims of bullying have been bullies themselves.

[–]julesburm1891 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Sure, I got bullied and name-called in school for being a lesbian. You know what else I got bullied for? Having red hair, being in the gifted classes, being really skinny, having braces, being shy, reading history books for fun, and deciding sweater vests were a good look in 10th grade.

Kids are assholes and they’re going to pick at other kids for anything that’s different. (Or rightly laughable, like sweater vests.) Sure, teach kids to be polite and empathetic, but also teach them to be resilient. Coddling people doesn’t do them any service in the long run.

[–]RedEyedWarriorGay | Male | 🇮🇪 Irish 🇮🇪 | Antineoliberal | Cocks are Compulsory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I was made fun of at secondary school because of my behaviour. How did that affect me? It taught me how to behave around other people, how to work on my flaws, and how to take a joke. By the end of my time in school, I was fairly popular because I learned the right lessons. One of these lessons was not to let my life revolve around my sexual orientation.

To be fair, none of those who picked on me went too far. I was never injured, I was never robbed, I was never made into an outcast, nor was I ever given the silent treatment. I was called names, I was joked about, I was told to go away and so on. This happened to everyone at school, so I wasn’t alone in this. Because it never went too far, I was not traumatised by it, but the right amount of it did happen to me, so I still learned. There is a degree of students picking on each other. Sometimes intervention from adults is needed, and sometimes adults need to not intervene.