Exactly. It is crazy to tell young, relatively ignorant children that they can choose their sex. They can't. They can sign up for a lifetime of invasive medical treatments to try to force their body to resemble that of the other sex, but that's not the same thing.
Unfortunately, a lot of people don't really figure out their sexuality u…
Exactly. It is crazy to tell young, relatively ignorant children that they can choose their sex. They can't. They can sign up for a lifetime of invasive medical treatments to try to force their body to resemble that of the other sex, but that's not the same thing.
Unfortunately, a lot of people don't really figure out their sexuality until they go through puberty. So, giving children puberty blockers until they "figure things out" will be counterproductive to a lot of children.
My *guess *, and it is only a guess, is that this is why most GD children eventually revert to a cis identity without treatment, but almost all children put on puberty blockers eventually progress to cross-sex hormones: the puberty blockers prevent them from understanding their body.
Again: when I was coming out in 1974 a lot of people briefly claimed to be bisexual before admitting to themselves they were gay. Now they will take refuge in "trans"; imagine a lesbian who works through her issues and comes out, abandoning her gender dysphoria pretense.
Only now her body has been mutilated and her endocrine chemistry is permanently messed up.
Exactly. It is crazy to tell young, relatively ignorant children that they can choose their sex. They can't. They can sign up for a lifetime of invasive medical treatments to try to force their body to resemble that of the other sex, but that's not the same thing.
Unfortunately, a lot of people don't really figure out their sexuality until they go through puberty. So, giving children puberty blockers until they "figure things out" will be counterproductive to a lot of children.
My *guess *, and it is only a guess, is that this is why most GD children eventually revert to a cis identity without treatment, but almost all children put on puberty blockers eventually progress to cross-sex hormones: the puberty blockers prevent them from understanding their body.
Again: when I was coming out in 1974 a lot of people briefly claimed to be bisexual before admitting to themselves they were gay. Now they will take refuge in "trans"; imagine a lesbian who works through her issues and comes out, abandoning her gender dysphoria pretense.
Only now her body has been mutilated and her endocrine chemistry is permanently messed up.