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Blue-state hospitals are folding on trans youth care. Parents are wondering why they moved.
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Meh, I don't believe they fully understand at that age. My daughter thought she was a boy when she was around 10, she is now 18 and turned out she was just gay. Had we gone the route of medical change it would have been the wrong choice for her.
What medical change? Because your options were a lot leas than you think.
The only one available to a 10 year old is puberty blockers. Those are 100% reversible, and are commonly used outside of trams health care. Theyre used to delay the onset of development. The process restart the moment you stop taking them. No long teem effects have been found the several times I've done literature review. If you have one please send me a peer review paper.
This also is not done on a whim. This would be done in coordination with a psycayrist that also would explore those feelings with them. If not a Dr then a therapist for aure. I would want someone trained to explore gender vs sexuality with before asking for puberty blockers.
And on a different note. Let's say you did let your daughter experiment with gender.
Go buy different name and pronouns, feel those don't fit, and go back? Like what's the long term damage. All I see is someone that comes out more confident that they're a woman after that?
I fail to see any long term damage that would have happened, even if you did medical intervention.
This is how MAGA people think it works:
Five-year-old boy: I like pink dresses
Teacher: we must cut off your penis this instant
so does dim-bulb up above there, lol
I don't think the long term effects of puberty blocking are fully understood and in my opinion not worth the risk.
But I'm also adverse to medication in general so I'm biased on that.
I didn't stop her from exploring either as much as other want to believe it. She did do therapy at one point and we fully supported her in all she did. I just stand firm on any life altering decisions until they are older. That's like letting your child get a tattoo or drive a car or smoke or anything you would not let them do.
Also I appreciate the civil response.
Based on what? Thats the problem here. You have this opniom, based on 0 supplied facts. This isnt new medicine. This is decades and decades of medical knowledge here.
https://www.jeremypbushnell.com/unfinished_everything/The%20history%20of%20puberty%20blockers%20-%20affirmative%20care.html
Were walking 45 years here.
Edit:
Was your daughter offered/suggested blockers?
Because it sounds like you did the right thing, listened to medical advice, and got the correct advice. So now other people shouldnt have it?
"I allowed my daughter to explore her gender and supported her with therapy and she maintained her gender identity so I don't think any other children or parents should be able to do what we did."
Sounds cruel to me.
Blair white, the fucking republican poster child for "one of the good ones," said she knew when she was 5. This is not a controversial point and the fact that you can't be bothered to look into it further than your own intuition is not our fault. Jumping into a debate without at least glancing at the data is moronic, and saying "nah" when actually presented the data is incomprehensibly stupid.
Everyone else covered the "medical change" stuff so I'll let that go.