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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't legally sign a contract to buy a car, a house, etc. until you're 18, but you can have a double mastectomy (and yes, this is happening to minors).

Puberty blockers aren't anything to be taken lightly either.  Many think the results are reversible, but that's not often the case.

Many European countries are reversing course on these medical "interventions", even progressive Sweden, Finland, Denmark...[/quote]

Please find me one exame of a pre 18 year old having a double mastectomy. [/quote]

Not hard to do

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/26/health/top-surgery-transgender-teenagers.html[/quote]

WHO CARES??!! You worry about your kids, let other people worry about their kids!!!!! Who the hell do people think they are to even have an opinion on this if it's not their family member. Mind your own damn business and stop it with all this crap. [/quote]

NP. My child will never get any sort of “puberty blockers” while they’re under 18. Ever. Still good?[/quote]

Sure. Stay out of my business with my kid. Now we good?[/quote]

Will you report a parent to CPS if they refuse to consent to such treatment on their child?[/quote]

PP with trans son here. No, and my trans son has a friend who was in that boat. I know the mom. She believes the child is trans, but refuses to call them by the name they’ve chosen. Agreed to they/them pronouns as a compromise but won’t use he/him. Uses an initial as a compromise because she won’t use the chosen name. I’m friendly with the mom because our kids are friends. Her reasons for not using the name her child chose are that as the mom, she put a lot of thought into the feminine name she chose for her child* and because the child tried on a different name before settling on this final one and she’s afraid they’ll switch again. She would let them do therapy but no meds. At one point, she was willing to allow top surgery but still no hormones, but we lost touch during Covid and I don’t know what happened.

I don’t know her child well enough to know if they were trans. I don’t think I’m qualified to judge. What I do know is that when I met them, I throughly they were a boy, and they seemed happy, but the mom corrected me and the kid seemed crushed. For years, the kid seemed to consistently be a good kid, have good grades, make good choices, hate being called their given name, and present as androgynous to boyish, before puberty and after. What I saw and heard through my son was a kid with growing resentment of their parents for giving in on small things but having to fight so hard to be heard that they were exhausted and sad. I heard a kid biding their time until they could go to college and escape. What I heard from the mom is someone who loved her child, believed her child, but opposed the changes the child wanted because she didn’t want to deal with explaining to other people that her daughter is now her son (she told me that). She was embarrassed that her kid was different (she told me that too). I felt so sad for her, watching her push her kid, a great kid, away from her because she wanted a “normal” kid who didn’t require an explanation. It really felt like a powder keg waiting to blow. I really hope they were able to find some way through it together.

*I admit, changing names was hard at first. I get how she feels to an extent. I knew I wanted children when I was young, and I always wanted to use this name. So when we had our first, I picked it because I didn’t know if we’d have another chance. DH didn’t love the name like I did, wasn’t in his top 5 list, but he didn’t veto it (we each had veto power) and let me choose it because I was the one doing the heavy lifting. Then I let him have the final say for our next daughter. So it felt a little like my wishes didn’t matter for either of our kids’ names in the end. And guess what. They don’t. As adults, they can choose whatever they want. If they marry, they can take their partner’s names or not. I learned to approach it with the mindset that I gave them their names as a gift and it’s up to them to do what they want with that gift, including not using it if it didn’t suit them. I raised them to be independent and know themselves well enough to make that choice, and I succeeded, even if they make different choices that I did/would. Especially if they make different choices. [/quote]

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