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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Repeat after me: other people’s gender identity is none of my business and I don’t need to police it. It’s literally not up to you decide when a person can or should transition[/quote]

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In our society we protect children.  They’re not allowed to drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, get a tattoo, go to a tanning salon.   Yet we’re allowing them to surgically alter their bodies and take hormones.  A 4000% increase in girls seeking treatment for gender issues is a cause for serious concern.  We should be looking at why so many girls want to opt out of womanhood and boys opt out of manhood.  It’s not out of line to raise the alarm over this.  [/quote]

You’re very misinformed. Most teens who transition do not have any type of surgery. The medication they take essentially puts hormonal development “on pause” to allow them time to transition or, if necessary, transition back if they decide to do that. Coming off the medication would continue development as usual. They’re not “opting out” of anything - they are opting into living life that is true to who they are. your faux concern is way off base. [/quote]

The drugs used to “pause” puberty are not without harm.   They can cause a lifetime of issues related to bone loss, including brittle bones and painful joints.   https://khn.org/news/women-fear-drug-they-used-to-halt-puberty-led-to-health-problems/

There are minors getting hormones and “top surgery”.   They’re being given medications rather than the mental heath care they really need.  Here’s one psychiatrist’s story.   https://quillette.com/2017/10/06/misunderstanding-new-kind-gender-dysphoria/

Look at Jazz Jennings, arguably the poster child for transitioning as a minor.  At the age of 19, Jazz has never experienced an orgasm.  She has a vagina which has to be dilated daily, which allows her to participate in a sex act she won’t derive pleasure from.  She’s been sterilized.  She’ll never have children of her own.  All this because at the age of 2, she was a little boy who liked dresses and the color purple, and some say was emulating a beloved older sister.   [/quote]

She has bodily autonomy. You don't get a say in what she (and her family and doctors) decide to do with her body. 
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But women don't get to say who they allow access to their bodies without being labeled transphobic.(see link in this thread). Lesbians are cancelled, harassed, and receive death threats for saying they don't want to have sex with natal men. And I am sure you agree with that.

You absolutely, 100% do not truly care about bodily autonomy. I think you are lying.[/quote]

What page was that? I haven’t read all of the early pages.

You are making a lot of assumptions about me. Why is that?

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This article:

https://medium.com/@QSE/when-you-say-i-would-never-date-a-trans-person-its-transphobic-here-s-why-aa6fdcf59aca

I fully support anti-discrimination, use of preferred gender, etc. But articles like this are appalling. NOBODY gets to decide who gets access to my body or any other person's body for me. This article is rape culture straight up. And it is against bodily autonomy.

If you support this author, if you think she is right, you cannot simultaneously say you support bodily autonomy.
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