"IT IS FULLY REVERSIBLE" I was told several times on reddit and in the youtube comment section and that I am anti-science for pointing out that delaying the natural evolution of your body in puberty, the largest and fastest change in your body, will have consequences on your body.
I was accused of being transphobic for saying that puberty helps children with gender-dysphoria to grow out of it 60-80% of the time.
They also typically ignore psychological things.
1, we all know hormones influence people's behaviour. My grandmother made some cake and I accidentally squashed the slice I had in my bag to take to work. I almost cried. Thanks, period. Normally I wouldn't be anything other than a bit annoyed, but now I felt overwhelming guilt.
So how do you think a child's feelings about gender would settle naturally if they are kept in a chemical eunuch state? How is a little boy supposed to actually become fine with masculinity if he is not allowed to experience it? Hormone blocking is just cementing them into this weird mental state forever.
2, How is this kid supposed to maintain normal and healthy interpersonal relationships with their own age group if they are kept as children? No matter what you believe, puberty is a huge event and a universal human experience.
I remember my cousin feeling horrible about herself for some time during puberty because she started developing a bit later than the rest of us did. I think it was like 6-8 months when everyone was growing boobs and starting our periods and not her and it already distressed her.
Imagine the same forever. Everyone else is getting taller, maturing, developing a sexuality, etc. and you are the same age, you used to be friends but now you can't relate to them at all.
As a "puberty hitting late enough to cause distress" guy, I can say that it takes a huge toll on both your mental anxiety and your interpersonal relationships, especially dating. I was fortunate mine still came through towards the tail end of high school and turned me into a properly oversized man. I can only imagine what toll it would take to not only never have it happen, but to reverse it in strange medical ways.
Normally I wouldn't be anything other than a bit annoyed, but now I felt overwhelming guilt.
Bitch I'm a man who almost never cries (I don't suppress it, it just doesn't happen), and if I did that, I would almost cry from guilt as well. Just reading that scenario made me feel second hand guilt and sadness. Lmao.
Awwwwh.
I have this endless bag that is a cruel mistress. Sometimes I can find treasures at the bottom, like a cereal bar when I really need it or some money.
But sometimes it demands a sacrifice.
Oh, I love those "fully reversible" comments. Everything else aside, if me taking artificial hormones at 13 would have been "fully reversible", why isn't just letting my natural hormones work not "fully reversible"?
You get the impression that children who have their lives destroyed by this treatment are regarded as failures who didn't fully commit to social justice - they were blessed with this hand lifting them out of sin privilege and now the ungrateful wretches have the temerity to go and commit suicide?
"IT IS FULLY REVERSIBLE" I was told several times on reddit and in the youtube comment section and that I am anti-science for pointing out that delaying the natural evolution of your body in puberty, the largest and fastest change in your body, will have consequences on your body. I was accused of being transphobic for saying that puberty helps children with gender-dysphoria to grow out of it 60-80% of the time.
They also typically ignore psychological things.
1, we all know hormones influence people's behaviour. My grandmother made some cake and I accidentally squashed the slice I had in my bag to take to work. I almost cried. Thanks, period. Normally I wouldn't be anything other than a bit annoyed, but now I felt overwhelming guilt.
So how do you think a child's feelings about gender would settle naturally if they are kept in a chemical eunuch state? How is a little boy supposed to actually become fine with masculinity if he is not allowed to experience it? Hormone blocking is just cementing them into this weird mental state forever.
2, How is this kid supposed to maintain normal and healthy interpersonal relationships with their own age group if they are kept as children? No matter what you believe, puberty is a huge event and a universal human experience.
I remember my cousin feeling horrible about herself for some time during puberty because she started developing a bit later than the rest of us did. I think it was like 6-8 months when everyone was growing boobs and starting our periods and not her and it already distressed her.
Imagine the same forever. Everyone else is getting taller, maturing, developing a sexuality, etc. and you are the same age, you used to be friends but now you can't relate to them at all.
As a "puberty hitting late enough to cause distress" guy, I can say that it takes a huge toll on both your mental anxiety and your interpersonal relationships, especially dating. I was fortunate mine still came through towards the tail end of high school and turned me into a properly oversized man. I can only imagine what toll it would take to not only never have it happen, but to reverse it in strange medical ways.
Bitch I'm a man who almost never cries (I don't suppress it, it just doesn't happen), and if I did that, I would almost cry from guilt as well. Just reading that scenario made me feel second hand guilt and sadness. Lmao.
Awwwwh.
I have this endless bag that is a cruel mistress. Sometimes I can find treasures at the bottom, like a cereal bar when I really need it or some money.
But sometimes it demands a sacrifice.
Oh, I love those "fully reversible" comments. Everything else aside, if me taking artificial hormones at 13 would have been "fully reversible", why isn't just letting my natural hormones work not "fully reversible"?
You get the impression that children who have their lives destroyed by this treatment are regarded as failures who didn't fully commit to social justice - they were blessed with this hand lifting them out of
sinprivilege and now the ungrateful wretches have the temerity to go and commit suicide?