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All the evidence we have definitivly proofs, that gender affirming care for minors is reliable, safe and effective.
If anyone tells you otherwise, they just lie. And at this point, not knowing this basic fact is just an admission of ignorance at best. Because I can google that in 5 minutes and drown in research-findings, that are easy enough to read. Also this "issue" is so present in general media, not having heard of it is practically impossible.
I just wish news-outlets would start mentioning that fact in the headlines. This is not a debate, and never has been.
Its one side having the truth, while the other side is, again, full of lies and harmfull intent.
Like every time with conservatives: The cruelty is the point. They just hate you. They want you dead.
Hormone blockers and surgeries cause irreversible changes to people's healthy bodies. Such life altering, irreversible, elective changes are incredibly dangerous territory for minors to wade into and is why we are seeing such irreversible, elective changes being increasingly barred from minors.
Children are not receiving gender affirming surgery. That is a flat out lie. Hormone blockers are not irreversible, it's literally in the name.
Then banning such elective surgeries for minors is not a problem.
Banning them only prevents children from receiving life saving care, like mastectomies to remove cancer.
Nobody is talking about mastectomies to remove cancer. We are talking about banning minors from elective surgeries.
Depending on the circumstances, surgery to excise cancer can be elective. Don't even fight me on this one, my family has a history of elective surgery to remove cancer.
Again, we aren't talking about mastectomies to remove cancer. We are talking about elective mastectomies (and other surgeries) classified as gender affirming care. Removing cancer is not gender affirming care.
Again, my family has had elective mastectomies to excise cancer. This is relevant, because these laws are in the same vein as "abortion is banned, except to save the life of a mother". We've seen how that turns out.
The years of blocked puberty is not reversible. You don't get that time back. Nor does the body properly deal with a stunted puberty years after it was supposed to happen.
Delayed puberty is still puberty. It's not going to adversely affect a person's life. However, going through the wrong puberty will irreversibly and greatly harm the health of a trans teen.
Better a delayed puberty than a wrong or precocious one.
And yes, studies have shown that puberty continues as normal once they're off hormone blockers.
You're just mad that there's medication that makes trans people stop being suicidal. If your goal was to protect kids then your ire would be directed at churches for their role in the circumcision and molestation epidemics.
With a 1% regret rate it is not something that trans people have an issue with. You can count on one hand the number of trans individuals that have gone back permanently. Also puberty blockers are completely reversible, it's not until months on the actual hormones that people start getting permanent changes. And even then that isn't that irreversible.
87.8% of children are no longer gender dysphoric after reaching adulthood. That is a major reason why irreversible, elective medical changes to a child's healthy body is so incredibly dangerous.
study source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychiatry/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.632784/full
Dysphoria is not a universal trans experience, and dysphoria will go away when people can express the gender they identify as.
Right off the bat that study is about sexual identity, ie- sexual preferences, not gender identity ie who one is.
And the are much better studies that are far more comprehensive
"found an overall rate of 1 percent for regret after surgery for both transmasculine and transfeminine surgeries." https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/transgender-youth-health-care-regret-pamela-paul-nyt-data.html
You didn't even get past the title which clearly describes it is about gender identity disorder: "A Follow-Up Study of Boys With Gender Identity Disorder". It also has info about sexual preferences, but that portion isn't relevant to this discussion.
Read your own damn study. You are selectively omitting the words right before "of the 139 participants "
"Sexual orientation was ascertained for both fantasy and behavior and then dichotomized as either biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic. Of the 139 participants, 17 (12.2%) were classified as persisters and the remaining 122 (87.8%) were classified as desisters. Data on sexual orientation in fantasy were available for 129 participants:... "
Gender identity/dysphoria had 139 participants, classified as persisters or desisters; of which 87.8% were desisters
Sexual orientation in fantasy had 129 participants, classified as biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic; 63.6% biphilic/androphilic
Sexual orientation in behavior had 108 participants, classified as biphilic/androphilic or gynephilic; 47.2% biphilic/androphilic
It states the terms 'persisters' and 'desisters' are for gender identity/dysphoria; of which 87.8% were desisters.
And?
It sounds like you're admitting that the sampling method used by this study is biased, and that you didn't read the conclusion:
Who'd have thought that trans kids who are forced through the wrong puberty would face more pressure to repress their gender variance than those who haven't?
That's a great study, but it ignores one massively important point: you can be trans and not dysphoric, quite a few trans people aren't dysphoric.
Dysphoria is distress you feel because a gender mismatch. It's entirely possible for a 7 year old boy to hate the fact that he was born male and be very upset over that. And that same person at 20 could be completely at peace with it.
They might be happily going through life as a male, female, or anything else, the paper doesn't say. If you stop being upset over the gender assigned at birth, you're not dysphoric anymore, that's all that's measured.
This paper doesn't say "most dysphoric boys stop wanting to be girls before they're 20". It says "most dysphoric boys stop hating the fact they were born as boys before they're 20". Hell they might have fully transitioned, the paper doesn't say.
You could have all of the evidence in the world show you the contrary, but you'll bend over backwards to assert that ~~the earth is flat~~ ~~jews run the government~~ ~~sperm are fully qualified children~~ gender affirming care is wrong or harmful. You'll use children to do this, even though the care given to trans youth is overwhelmingly social and reversible puberty blockers. People like you want to shove kids back in the closet. I'm so, so sorry that kids are more mature than you were growing up. I have to wonder who hurt you.