Very true. But the issue isn't that at all. Adults are allowed to do what they want behind closed doors & it's none of my concern. I get it as most people likely do but lets clarify my position:
It is part of the issue, but sure, go on.
It's becoming quite clear as more and more "trans people" are DE transitioning every day because they were fed the Kool aid and now realize that they made a huge mistake and will have to deal with a change in their bodies that they'll likely never get over.
And you have proof of that, that more are 'de transitioning' than transitioning? Cause... that's not it at all.
Also question - what is 'transitioning' and 'de transitioning'? Do you know what they actually mean, understand what it means? Because there are different types of transitioning and de transitioning.
We still do not know what the repercussions of the so-called "medical assistance in transitioning" will do in the long term. This alone makes it a "sick" craze that and we'll hopefully see less of this B.S. in the future.
Actually we do for the most part. What people don't know is how blockers may affect kids, if they're taken to give the kid time to figure out if they're Trans or it is a "phase", or something else. On the flip side of that, blockers have been used for kids for years now and yes, there has been some issues, but overall it's no different than other meds, so... informed consent is still the norm here. This "sick craze" as you call it is called medicine and if you don't like it, don't involve yourself in it.
Also, if there is a kid that is "medically Transitioned" before 18, (Aka GRS) there had better be a DAMN good reason for it especially in today's climate, otherwise, GRS does NOT happen until 18, and NOT without a LOT of pre-op conditions like 2 YEARS of living as the gender they say they are, PLUS 2 to 3 doctors signing off on that yes this person is Trans and is good for the surgery (with TWO being psychologists that have followed the person, plus their family doc) and so on. So it's not like it's happening to kids at all, or willy nilly when they ARE 18.
To be clear, I don't give a damn what consenting adults do in their own time - just leave our kids out of it. It's the KIDS I'm concerned with as they have no ability to consent.
Well, if YOUR kids don't want blockers or aren't even trans, then what's it matter?
OTHER people's kids are not your concern if those parents have decided that letting their kids take blockers or HRT or "soft" transitioning (my term, not sure it's a used one) is right for them.
This is what makes it so crazy!! I do not believe for one minute that "transgendered kids" have increased by over 300% in the last few years.
They haven't. Trans kids are still a thing and have been as long as humans have been humans. It's just NOW it's "more socially acceptable (or should be)" and it's okay, compared to even ten years ago when being trans at all was wrong/evil/do not be. So more kids are comfortable coming out to say "I'm trans". Or whatever else (gay, lesbian, bi, non-binary, etc).
And even if 300% 'coming out' is a real number (not sure it is but you never know), Trans people are STILL such a small number of the population, why does it matter so much to YOU?
That is in and of itself not only dangerous but should be stopped immediately.
WTF? You want it stopped? What stopped, that kids feel safe to come out as Trans?
Even adults are de transitioning so if they are, what about our kids?
Then you should be for blockers! That way, if a kid says "Hey, I think I'm trans", they can figure it out and have time to do so without their bodies becoming 'set in stone', as it were, to a gender they may not even be. And if in the end they realize that oh they are that gender, then the blockers stop and puberty resumes as normal. But if they aren't, then the blockers can help set them up for HRT to have their body more match the gender they are, and people/society won't be so freaky about it because they don't "pass". It's a win-win!
I especially worry about our kids - you know, the ones that maybe have more difficulty getting to know others, maybe not sure of where their place is in the world (or in their world/family) and that's completely understandable.
Then perhaps be more understanding of trans kids and their desire to be the gender THEY know they are.
I went through it and I'm sure most people here have as well.
Yep, which is why I support Trans kids being who they are, and not what other people in society THINKS they are.
But as we got older, more mature and learnt more or understood our surroundings, things eventually fell into place.
LOL - maybe for some, Dix, but not all people are like that; some still have issues. And it's as if you're assuming that a kid as they mature won't be Trans if they say they are when they're younger?
That's called maturity and no right minded person should be encouraging 4, 5 or 6 year old's to transition when they likely don't even know what the bloody term means.
It's great that this ISN'T happening then, isn't it? Oh, wait, you mean "soft" transitioning, where their parents take a kid who says "I wanna wear a dress!" and lets him? Or "I wanna put on make up!" Or "I wanna be more like a boy"? I didn't know clothes scared you so much, Dix. Or make up, or kids wanting to be like "mommy" or "daddy", just that those kids may not be who YOU think they should be.
What is happening to our kids is unconscionable
It is; people pushing kids to suicide is disgusting and it's all because they aren't "normal" in their eyes needs to be called out, every single time it happens.
and needs to be stopped until the child is mature enough to make their own decision.
Funny how in all other ways parenting is all "Allow the child to make decisions, allow the child to do X or be X or think X" but when it comes to them and their gender - oh no, they don't know ANYTHING and should just STFU and do as they're told.
That way, if they end up de transitioning, they can then know they've made the wrong decision & no one else is to blame.
You're assuming that IF they de transition, that there is a blame to be had? Or that they would de transition at all?
Your stance isn't shocking or surprising, Dix; this has been your stance for a while.
Serious here Dix, and I have tried to be not my 'normal asshole self' in this reply in hopes that taking it seriously you might be able to get it: have you even educated yourself about trans kids? Have you watched videos? Read articles? TALKED to trans kids? Do you have any empathy at ALL for the hell they go through just for being trans kids who will later be trans adults and STILL not accepted by society? And realize that posts like this do not help them at all? Because they're NOT idiots. The older trans kids get, the more they realize how much society is bullshit to them, and this "oh let the kids decide when they're older" is just a delay tactic because society doesn't even accept ADULT Trans people. So you tell me, Dix, how is a trans kid NOT going to feel hopeless at that??
Do you UNDERSTAND that stuff like you've posted does not help them at all? That it only makes things WORSE for trans kids and that suicide is the 'only answer' to too many of them?
You say you're for the kids - tell me then if that's the case, which is preferable, a kid who is alive but just not the gender society thinks they are, vs. dead?
