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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Those who support hormones and surgeries for minors should read some posts on r/detrans.  The stories of regret are compelling.  [/quote]

So are the ones of the families and friends of people who committed suicide, or people who had to stay closeted because they feared for their safety if they transitioned openly.

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Someone upthread said something sensible like perhaps there needs to be more stringent rules around this and I agree with that person.

But I also don’t trust the hateful people in the GOP to want to do anything even slightly supportive of LGBTQIA+. They don’t actually care about the children in these circumstances; if they did they wouldn’t try to turn up the anti-trans temperature with everything they do.[/quote]

You are missing the huge numbers of traditionally left-leaning people deeply concerned about what is happening to young people in gender clinics today.  This whistle blower, herself married to a transman, who couldn’t take it anymore and left her job at a gender clinic and is now speaking out.  This isn’t and shouldn’t be a left-right issue.  https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids[/quote]
It shouldn’t be political, no. But show me a single example of a Republican acting in good faith towards the entire LGBTQIA+ population, excluding those who have children in that population. They don’t. This isn’t a movement to save children from irreparable harm, this is another move by Republicans to make life as a trans person more dangerous. That’s all. You ascribe different motivations based on your feelings about Republicans.

And for the record, I am a deep blue Democrat who violates the predominant beliefs and doesn’t believe that trans people are the sex they want to be, but I’m also aware enough to treat each and every trans person with respect. I just don’t think the GOP cares a whit about children. They don’t. [/quote]

And I don’t care about the motivations of people on the right.  Children are being harmed by the current “affirmative-only” approach to transgender issues.  I am not the only traditionally left-leaning person who thinks people have lost their minds on this issue.  We are sacrificing a generation of our brightest, quirkiest, most-sensitive girls who in another time would have been goth or emo or cutters or anorexics, and telling them they were born in the wrong body and can be fixed with hormones and surgery.  This is not okay.  Pharmaceutical companies are getting rich because a bunch of well-meaning leftists can’t fathom agreeing with someone across the aisle.  Open your eyes to the medical abomination that is happening right now. Children cannot consent to these treatments.  This is not okay.  [/quote]

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