People are really now arguing that all children must be put on puberty blocking hormones, period. Anyone who disagrees must be uninformed.

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[–]madcow-5 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

The reassignment surgery should be a no go for adults too. You want breast implants, fine. But chopping off your penis and scrambling your sexual organs around into a Frankenstein's monster of a pretend organ is seriously sick and should not be encouraged.

I'm not saying trans people don't exist, but cutting off your dick and stabbing a hole in yourself is not a vagina.

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If you're over the age of twenty-five, I believe you should be allowed to have cosmetic surgeries. Your doctor can say no, but I don't want to give the government that power.

[–]madcow-5 9 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I'm genuinely torn. If it's legal, I think it should be heavily discouraged. Again, I'm not talking about breast implants, which I consider cosmetic.

I mean cutting up your dick and basically drilling a hole in yourself to pretend is a vagina. That's more than cosmetic, that's functional. It's like if the new trend amongst young people were to be having their legs removed. I don't think anyone encouraging it is trying to help these people, I think there are genuinely evil people out there trying to convince people to do something horrific to themselves.

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Yeah, I discourage having surgery, especially in regards to genitalia. This is a major reason why I oppose state laws that require surgery to change your sex marker, because they promote doing it. I know it's supposed to be a "compromise", but in reality it helps no one. Even banning sex marker changes would be better.

If you want a real compromise, how about we have a marker for sex, which can never be changed, and a marker for gender or pronouns, which can? It won't make both sides completely happy, but at least it won't entirely upset them either. I'm gon'o admit: this my ideal solution, so perhaps it's biased, but I'm a centrist, so perhaps not.

But the fake vaginas ain't really functional, because you can't have children with them. You can have sex with them, but that makes it more of a sex toy than an organ. That's another reason I don't like it, because other than state laws requiring surgery for a sex marker change, there's really no'n other than fetishism that drives people to have these surgeries.