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[–]Rosefield 27 insightful - 1 fun27 insightful - 0 fun28 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

But that IS one of the goals of puberty blockers - prevent the genitals from working. Parents of 'trans' children don't know what the hell they are doing to their kids. You can't chose what side effects you have.

[–]dilsencySame-sex community 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder if some do know. My child is acting what I think a gay person acts like - let's nip that in the bud.

[–]Porphyria 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Maybe at least some of them do know.

When I was a teenager, I was convinced that most parents utterly loathe their children. That they envied us for being automatically considered attractive, and for having "our whole lives ahead of us". I believed that was why so many "old" women wanted to force their pregnant daughters to carry to term, AND wanted to force them to forgo college to raise the baby, instead of choosing adoption : Pure spite, because THEIR lives "sucked".

As I got older, I mellowed, and thought I had just projected onto other parents the misery I felt with my wretched egg donor and sperm donor. But now I have to wonder if my younger self was smarter : I mean, turning your teenage daughter into a trans "boy", breasts removed, maybe hair falling out, acne, God knows what else-? Literally castrating your teenage son, and apparently permanently reducing his IQ and stunting his adult height-?

I'm sorry, but while maybe the vast majority of parents of trans children are just bewildered, and are trying to do the right thing, I can't help but wonder if the worst and most narcissistic/abusive of the bunch are only too happy now.

[–][deleted] 21 insightful - 1 fun21 insightful - 0 fun22 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, no shit. WTF did they expect when they started chemically castrating children?

[–]WanderingWonderWizard Extraordinaire 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

You’d think this kind of thing would be common sense

[–]IridescentAnacondastrictly dickly 15 insightful - 6 fun15 insightful - 5 fun16 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

It's life-saving, medically necessary treatment!

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

I don't see what the big deal is here, this isn't the only medication that when given to children causes lack of ability to attain sexual satisfaction as an adult. I personally will never be able to have an orgasm or experience any sort of sexual pleasure at all because I was on Sertraline from 8 to 18 for anxiety (but when I went off it because Sertraline gives me migraines and I was finally old enough to have literally any say in my own healthcare decisions, I found out that I still have a stupidly high sex drive, fuck my life) and that's a medication from a class of drugs that around 13% of all American citizens are on at any given time, and supposedly it's not even that rare of a effect if you're on that shit long enough and/or starting at a young enough age. My life's still plenty worth living and if anyone felt sorry for me for this I'd honestly be massively offended, it's just part of who I am now, even knowing what caused it I don't miss anything, can't miss what I never had.

I'm significantly more worried about the real issues than about "oh no won't someone please think about sex", he real scary shit is that puberty blockers impede brain development and cause osteoporosis and that hormone therapy can cause cancer.

[–]automoderatorHuman-Exclusionary Radical Overlord[M] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

RIP Snappy, I AM THE NEW GOD!

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