• katy ✨
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    497 months ago

    banning puberty blockers for trans kids but allowing cis kids (who have been using them for like four decades without harm) on the start of pride is pretty absurd.

    it also shows that it’s not actually about protecting kids but about impose section 28.

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      Correct me if I’m wrong, but the only reason I know of for cis kids to use puberty blockers is as a measure against the condition precocious puberty, which basically means the body is going into puberty too soon.

      If that’s correct, then this isn’t really a good argument, because using drugs to delay premature puberty until its ‘normal time’ is very different from delaying ‘normal time’ puberty to a future ‘late time’–the latter moves the body into an abnormal state, while the former movies out out of one.

      Isn’t that kind of like arguing that because we’ve been using blood thinners successfully for a long time (leaving out that it’s used primarily on people who are prone to blood clots to treat that condition), that there’s definitely no harm in prescribing blood thinners to people with regular blood?

      • katy ✨
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        147 months ago

        for cis kids they would take them to delay puberty until a time in the future at which point they come off the blockers and everything works fine, which defeats the main terf talking point of “irreversible changes” or being dangerous to children.

        the only difference is that trans children would take them only until they can start taking hormones.

        • @Seleni
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          57 months ago

          Oh, don’t worry; they definitely want to ban them for cis kids too (or at least girls). The one thing Conservatives the world over have in common is they like their women young.

  • @[email protected]
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    This is evil. This will lead to deaths of children. Fuck everyone involved. I wish there was a hell for TERFs to go to.

    • @jeffwOP
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      117 months ago

      Somehow I don’t think many Tories are TERFs

  • @[email protected]
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    357 months ago

    Unless someone is against trans people existing, is there any merit to doing this? Why make a person go through puberty twice just because they’re “too young” to decide?

    • @[email protected]
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      357 months ago

      Trans people have been chosen as the current boogeyman of the UK for them to expiate for their own failings as a country, and for the consecutive disasters provoked by the Tories. It’s a sleight of hand that allows them to distract the public with a fear without basis on reality in order to avoid taking responsibility of their own failures.

        • @[email protected]
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          47 months ago

          Where I live, immigrants are the new boogeymen too. But the Conservatives have a big market in immigrants too, so when “other immigrants, not YOU immigrants” doesn’t work, I guess that’s what trans people are for! Lol

    • katy ✨
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      47 months ago

      because they know starmer’s labour will continue to go along with it.

      • @[email protected]
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        247 months ago

        You. Don’t get therapy before getting a tattoo. You do get therapy and medical counceling before starting any sort of treatment like this. Your comparison is ridiculous.

      • Cethin
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        147 months ago

        Puberty also has significant consequences. The fact that your body is going to go through it without intervention doesn’t change that there are consequences to consider.

        Puberty blockers have been used for decades, mostly for non-trans patients. I’m sure the effects are fairly well understood, as far as any medical procedure can be understood.

        My dad got a knee replaced not too long ago. He was told about the potential consequences and everything it may involve. He spoke with his doctor about what it’d entail many times. He made the decision to go ahead with it. He ended up regretting it and generally having more issues than it solved.

        Does that mean people shouldn’t be allowed to get knee replacement surgery? Of course not. You talk it through with your doctors (and parent/guardian in this case) and make an informed medical decision. The government shouldn’t be making medical decisions for people, especially for things they don’t fully understand themselves. People should be allowed to make their own medical decisions.

          • @bc93
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            107 months ago

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              • Cethin
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                97 months ago

                First of all, puberty blockers require no surgery.

                The benefit of the medical intervention should compare costs and benefits. Even for children we do many medical treatments that can’t be undone because the benefits seem to outweigh the possible negatives that come with it. For example, fixing a cleft lip has some pretty large consequences, particularly socially, and can’t be undone.

                We also allow some things that have essentially no positive and don’t have the child’s consent, such as circumcision.

                Medical decisions should be made by the patient, their doctor, and their parent and/or guardian if that applies. It should not be made by you. You can’t weigh the costs and benefits for them since you have no idea on every person’s circumstances. If they think the outcome will be better with the treatment then it should be their decision.

                Removing choice is not something anyone should be in favor of doing. You would not find it acceptable for other people to tell you you can’t do things you’d like to do, so leave others to make their own decisions. Assuming that you know what’s best for them is controlling and demeaning. They’re far more capable in making that choice for themselves than you are.

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                • @[email protected]
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                  -67 months ago

                  Yes, I do. The side effects include everything puberty does, it affects your height, your bone density, brain development, energy levels, heart problems, the list goes on and on.

                  They need therapy, and puberty blockers have to be done as puberty starts, and that deadline causes steps to be skipped, things rushed, corners skipped, and once its done, its done. You cant undo it.

                  Imo, the therapy phase shouldnt stop until they are 18.

      • @pyre
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        17 months ago

        yes, you can? we’ve seen countless examples of it for years, in cis children. these didn’t just pop up into existence.

      • @Gradually_Adjusting
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        Edit: I think I’ve misread this comment chain, but putting my comment back now

        These drugs have been used on cis children for non trans related conditions (such as precocious puberty in young children and some hormone-sensitive cancers in adults) for a long time and their effects are well known and fully reversible.

        The use of puberty blockers in transgender youth is supported by twelve major medical associations, including the AMA. The people who take them are always, by established protocol, made aware of their major and side effects in relation to their own goals and self perceptions with regard to gender.

        On the basis of the forgoing, trans healthcare is considered life saving by a vast consensus of medical professionals.

        Now let’s hear your side of this totally good faith discussion you’ve been talking about.

        • @[email protected]
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          -177 months ago

          including the AMA

          I agree with the previous poster. Medical evidence from a country with for-profit healthcare should be discounted until proven by non-money-motivated experts

          Greed can’t be trusted, and these are children we’re talking about

          • @Gradually_Adjusting
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            207 months ago

            All American medical science is inadmissible in your view? Ironically I was responding to someone else that was lamenting how people weren’t engaging with the evidence in good faith. But hey, who needs to think critically when you can just twist it into a capitalism bad argument. With bathwater like that, who needs babies?

            • @apfelwoiSchoppen
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              Yeah, I am all for criticizing capitalism but ffs that’s not the problem here. It is not as if the US is the only place that puberty blockers are used. Other industrialized countries with universal healthcare do as well. The issue is transphobia, clear and simple.

              • @[email protected]
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                -117 months ago

                The issue is extremely well educated medical professionals disagreeing with extremely well educated medical professionals who are motivated by money

                If you think it’s simply 100% transphobia, then that’s why no professionals are asking your opinion

                • @apfelwoiSchoppen
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                  67 months ago

                  Glad that professionals are asking for neither of our opinions, honestly.

          • @[email protected]
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            117 months ago

            Doctors in Spain, France, Netherlands, Poland, Norway and Denmark also prescribe hormone blockers to minors, just to say a few. Is that non-profit enough for you?

          • @[email protected]
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            197 months ago

            I can’t understand why people can’t just mind their own business. Let me rise my children according to what science says, not what your feelings say. What parents want is to keep their children safe, and puberty blockers helps these children avoid hardships later in life.

              • @FinnFooted
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                107 months ago

                If they actually cared, they would take the time to understand the actual situation and realize that puberty blockers aren’t experimental or dangerous.

              • @[email protected]
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                107 months ago

                Yes, I can. But this law is the opposite of caring about others. You’re just able to twist anything and disguise it as empathy “for the children” and couldn’t care the least what the children actually want.

              • @[email protected]
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                You’re missing the fact that you could easily replace “science” in their comment with “Facebook”, because those are the “scientists” they’re referring to

          • @Gradually_Adjusting
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            137 months ago

            I know exactly why people are apprehensive

            dishonest refusal

          • Cethin
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            87 months ago

            Being apprehensive about something you don’t understand is perfectly acceptable and understandable. Taking away people’s choice to make an informed decision for themselves with their doctor because of the apprehension is not acceptable (or it shouldn’t be at least).

            Every medical procedure has consequences, as does the forgoing of such procedure. The decision should be left for each individual to decide for themselves, not a government making medical decisions for all people while being ignorant of their situation.

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              • Cethin
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                As an anarchist, yeah that’d pretty much be anarchy.

                We couldn’t have people make decisions for themselves I guess! We have to make sure those rich elites in control of the government are there to protect us from our total stupidity. /s

                Of course there need to be regulations. The procedure needs to be tested to be safe on humans (which it has, to a higher degree than many other medicines), and the parents/guardians would need to reach a decision with their child and with a licensed medical professional.

                Government officials aren’t licensed medical professionals. They shouldn’t be making that decision. They should lay out the groundwork for licensing and medical testing and leave the actual results and decisions to the professionals and the patients.

          • @[email protected]
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            57 months ago

            Your average person may feel apprehensive about puberty blockers and hormone treatment because conservative/right wing news propaganda has been lying to people and misinforming them for over a decade on this issue. Your average person may not know better because misinformation is rampant.

            But the people in positions of power, such as Victoria Mary Atkins? It’s part of their job to be properly informed, and she is, and she doesn’t care. She still had the gall to cite the Dr. Cass review when pushing through this harmful rule that’s going to irreparably harm trans children.

            Dr. Hilary Cass knows better too. The people in power on the right love that review because it gives an appearance of legitimacy to their cruelty against trans people, and lawmakers and judges know they can use it to push though their anti-trans agendas.

      • @[email protected]
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        87 months ago

        I mean there’s having a discussion and then there’s just dishonest refusal to even acknowledge an opposing view.

        Lol what does “having a discussion” look like to you? Maybe asking questions like “Why…?”, literally presenting an opportunity for someone to answer the question? Because maybe you need to re-read my initial comment.

        You can’t fathom a reason people might be concerned about children being given non-medicinal drugs that block puberty?

        Puberty blockers are being offered in a medical context, generally after extensive work with the patient. These aren’t hormones being bought over the dark web and taken (or administered) in secret.

        There’s also a difference between being “concerned” (which the Doctors ARE…hence why these aren’t over-the-counter substances), and wanting it made illegal.

  • @[email protected]
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    207 months ago

    Remember when they said they werent coming for our kids? I remember. Ill remember for next time too.

    • @Everythingispenguins
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      Yeah that was a possessive our. So they were taking about their own kids.

  • DominusOfMegadeus
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    157 months ago

    WTAF is happening right now.

    Sir? SIR! Stop the train, I demand to get off at once!

    • @Everythingispenguins
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      As you step off the train you are met with the void. As the last glimpse of the train disappears you realized you are doomed to wander the void forever.

      (I honestly don’t really know were this comment is going. It just sounded funny in my head.)

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    • Skua
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      All this time everyone thought we loved tea, turns out it was actually just TE

    • Jojo, Lady of the West
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      197 months ago

      Trans-exclusionary radical feminist.

      They generally refer to themselves as “gender-critical feminists”.

      The first part “trans-exclusionary” is pretty self-explanatory. “Radical” meaning they believe the whole system needs an overhaul, and mostly comes from the branch of feminism that TERFs/gender-criticals grew out of.

    • @jeffwOP
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      Trans exclusionary rad fem. It’s a radical feminist that basically believes that your gender assigned at birth is fixed and cannot change

      • @feedum_sneedson
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        Not quite - they believe gender is a social construct, to the point that it literally doesn’t exist, and the material reality of your biological sex is all there is. Historically, sociology followed biology, and sexual dimorphism is therefore the root of inequality between the sexes (particularly the fact that only females bear children). It’s a compelling argument, particularly to a Marxist.

        People can dress how they want though, none of my business.

  • @Phegan
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    Terf island strikes again.

  • @Everythingispenguins
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    I want to propose a few different meanings of TERF

    Trans exclusionary radical frauds

    Transphobia extreme rat fucks

    Terrible egotistical rich fascists

    Totally elbow rash fungus

    Feel free to add your own.