"I truly recommend you look into detransitioners' stories, you might understand better why Chris calls it a choice."
"Socially induced" and "choice" mean two completely different things. Especially when talking about children who are already vulnerable. If a child is inducted into a cult, did that child make a choice? If a child is groome…
"I truly recommend you look into detransitioners' stories, you might understand better why Chris calls it a choice."
"Socially induced" and "choice" mean two completely different things. Especially when talking about children who are already vulnerable. If a child is inducted into a cult, did that child make a choice? If a child is groomed by an adult and thought they gave consent, did they really give consent? These children re already vulnerable in almost all cases. they have comorbidities like depression or repressed homosexuality or sexual trauma, I think it's extremely simplistic to label their actions as simply a choice.
Again, I'm about four years deep on seriously researching trans issues at this point. I'm very well aware of detrans stories. But if you read those stories, in each case, the people affected didn't think they were making a choice. They weren't faking. In fact, they felt they had no choice but to transition. They were convinced enough to do irreparable damage to their bodies, and only when they became more mature, or saw that they would never truly be the sex they wanted to be, did they realise that they'd made a mistake. Note that almost no detranstitioners advocate a ban on transition for adults.
I keep seeing this language of "in most cases." No, in most cases people who transition don't detransition. This is borne out in every single piece of research done on the topic. Detransition stories are tragic. And they're the reason why we need to do a much better job of distinguishing between genuine gender dysphoria and, especially in the case of girls, sexual trauma and anxiety. But even the study that found the highest rate of detransition (imperfect though it was) found that 87% of people don't detransition.
Trans ideology is doing huge, measurable harm at the moment. You don't have to convince me. I waded into this issue, despite all the flack I knew I'd get, because I see that very clearly. But it's the ideology that's at fault. Not the people, and especially not the children, who are caught up by it.
"I truly recommend you look into detransitioners' stories, you might understand better why Chris calls it a choice."
"Socially induced" and "choice" mean two completely different things. Especially when talking about children who are already vulnerable. If a child is inducted into a cult, did that child make a choice? If a child is groomed by an adult and thought they gave consent, did they really give consent? These children re already vulnerable in almost all cases. they have comorbidities like depression or repressed homosexuality or sexual trauma, I think it's extremely simplistic to label their actions as simply a choice.
Again, I'm about four years deep on seriously researching trans issues at this point. I'm very well aware of detrans stories. But if you read those stories, in each case, the people affected didn't think they were making a choice. They weren't faking. In fact, they felt they had no choice but to transition. They were convinced enough to do irreparable damage to their bodies, and only when they became more mature, or saw that they would never truly be the sex they wanted to be, did they realise that they'd made a mistake. Note that almost no detranstitioners advocate a ban on transition for adults.
I keep seeing this language of "in most cases." No, in most cases people who transition don't detransition. This is borne out in every single piece of research done on the topic. Detransition stories are tragic. And they're the reason why we need to do a much better job of distinguishing between genuine gender dysphoria and, especially in the case of girls, sexual trauma and anxiety. But even the study that found the highest rate of detransition (imperfect though it was) found that 87% of people don't detransition.
Trans ideology is doing huge, measurable harm at the moment. You don't have to convince me. I waded into this issue, despite all the flack I knew I'd get, because I see that very clearly. But it's the ideology that's at fault. Not the people, and especially not the children, who are caught up by it.