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[CW: Transphobia] hot take: trans kids should have normal childhoods, actually (lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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alt textA 4 panel comic. In the first panel, a character stands on a cliff, addressing an audience, and says "trans kids should not get puberty blockers". In the second panel, the audience, armed and labeled "cis people", looks content. In the third panel, the character on the cliff says "they should get hrt so they can go through the right puberty at the same time as their cis peers". In the fourth panel, the audience, still labeled "cis people", looks angry at the character.

if you're cis and seeing this: keep your concern trolling to yourself.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

I've never understood that thinking. Well, I guess the whole point of it is the lack of thinking tbh.

Why would you not want every tool available for your kid? If blockers are what they need, they should get them. If they need different hormones than what their body is producing, they should get them. If they need different levels of what they're producing, they should get them.

Shit, birth control pills are used for some very young people, and nobody freaks out at the fact of it. The freaking out is usually at the implication of someone very young having sex, not that the medication is useful in general.

We know that the outcomes are predictable for HRT, and that those outcomes are better when the person has access as early as medically possible (there are edge cases where delaying start allows for other medical care to occur first, but those are very rare). So what's the big damn deal? There's plenty of data on outcomes now. There's plenty of data on regret now. Those rates are lower than cosmetic procedures for full adults getting them for non medical reasons (like nose jobs and facelifts, not reconstructions post injury).

It's safe. It's effective. It gives the highest probability of your kid, of anyone's kid growing up as healthy as can be predicted. We know this because it is so much the majority outcome, and the drawbacks so minimal, that nobody that can be bothered to read the data could think otherwise. And it's out there; might have to pirate some of it, but still.

It's infuriating. The whole puberty blockers but not transition idea is so dumb. It's so depressingly, boringly dumb.