I just sent the following email to Change Research:
"If your recent poll on transgender ideas shows that the American people are horrified by such things as kids being given puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones and having gender-affirming surgeries, the question is, why aren't YOU horrified by these things too?
I just sent the following email to Change Research:
"If your recent poll on transgender ideas shows that the American people are horrified by such things as kids being given puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones and having gender-affirming surgeries, the question is, why aren't YOU horrified by these things too?
"Transgender activists have done a very good job of conveying the idea that being a trans kid is some kind of existential torture that must be treated immediately, even before the child grows up -- and that the only treatment is "affirmative care". But there isn't a lot of evidence for that. There is, however, evidence that many kids with trans feelings outgrow those feelings and eventually accept their sex as their gender -- and that is as it should be, since being trans is not the happiest life. Giving kids with trans feelings "affirmative care" is not creating happy trans people, it is creating unhappy detransitioners.
"I am a gay man and a liberal Democrat, but the Democrats are on the wrong side of this issue. Children do not have the emotional maturity to determine their gender for the adult yet to come. Changing genders (which isn't actually possible) should be an adult decision. Kids need to be told that. They need to wait until they are 18 to take any action. The idea that being told to wait will make them commit suicide is just an unproven talking point from trans activists. I suspect that there are more detransitioners committing suicide than there are children who have been told "wait until you are 18". Children are accustomed to waiting to become adults to do the things they want to do.
"It is especially important that kids be made to wait because BEING TRANS HAS BECOME A FAD AMONG KIDS. What that means is that most kids who say they are trans are not trans at all, but are allowing themselves to be influenced.
"You are on the wrong side of this issue. Forget about re-branding puberty-blockers to make them more palatable to the public. That isn't going to work. The truth about the harmful effects of these drugs is gradually coming out. Instead of pushing the trans narrative, you need to see that much of the trans narrative is harmful to society -- harmful to children, and unfair to women.
"So, back to my original question: Why doesn't it horrify YOU that emotionally disturbed kids are being medically abused by doctors who have found a new way to make money? Children need to be allowed to grow up naturally, and the fact that you don't see that is an indication that your values are wrong."
Fabulous! I would add that protective measures need to be in place even after 18. How many of us really knew who we were at 18. I know I didn’t. It is rampant on college campuses too.
I agree for the most part, but the trend in Western society is to say that people are maturing earlier, and shouldn't be made to wait too long before getting all their adult rights. I also believe in reincarnation. If you make a serious mistake in your life, it becomes a lesson, and you continue on with the added wisdom from that.
However, if we throw out the "affirmative care" model altogether, that will benefit adults too. The so-called "gatekeeping model" is needed for these kinds of life-changing treatments which irrevocably alter a person's life.
I just sent the following email to Change Research:
"If your recent poll on transgender ideas shows that the American people are horrified by such things as kids being given puberty-blockers and cross-sex hormones and having gender-affirming surgeries, the question is, why aren't YOU horrified by these things too?
"Transgender activists have done a very good job of conveying the idea that being a trans kid is some kind of existential torture that must be treated immediately, even before the child grows up -- and that the only treatment is "affirmative care". But there isn't a lot of evidence for that. There is, however, evidence that many kids with trans feelings outgrow those feelings and eventually accept their sex as their gender -- and that is as it should be, since being trans is not the happiest life. Giving kids with trans feelings "affirmative care" is not creating happy trans people, it is creating unhappy detransitioners.
"I am a gay man and a liberal Democrat, but the Democrats are on the wrong side of this issue. Children do not have the emotional maturity to determine their gender for the adult yet to come. Changing genders (which isn't actually possible) should be an adult decision. Kids need to be told that. They need to wait until they are 18 to take any action. The idea that being told to wait will make them commit suicide is just an unproven talking point from trans activists. I suspect that there are more detransitioners committing suicide than there are children who have been told "wait until you are 18". Children are accustomed to waiting to become adults to do the things they want to do.
"It is especially important that kids be made to wait because BEING TRANS HAS BECOME A FAD AMONG KIDS. What that means is that most kids who say they are trans are not trans at all, but are allowing themselves to be influenced.
"You are on the wrong side of this issue. Forget about re-branding puberty-blockers to make them more palatable to the public. That isn't going to work. The truth about the harmful effects of these drugs is gradually coming out. Instead of pushing the trans narrative, you need to see that much of the trans narrative is harmful to society -- harmful to children, and unfair to women.
"So, back to my original question: Why doesn't it horrify YOU that emotionally disturbed kids are being medically abused by doctors who have found a new way to make money? Children need to be allowed to grow up naturally, and the fact that you don't see that is an indication that your values are wrong."
Fabulous! I would add that protective measures need to be in place even after 18. How many of us really knew who we were at 18. I know I didn’t. It is rampant on college campuses too.
I agree for the most part, but the trend in Western society is to say that people are maturing earlier, and shouldn't be made to wait too long before getting all their adult rights. I also believe in reincarnation. If you make a serious mistake in your life, it becomes a lesson, and you continue on with the added wisdom from that.
However, if we throw out the "affirmative care" model altogether, that will benefit adults too. The so-called "gatekeeping model" is needed for these kinds of life-changing treatments which irrevocably alter a person's life.
Very well said!