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Puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria to be banned indefinitely (news.stv.tv)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Treatment for gender dysphoria aims to help people live the way they want to, in their preferred gender identity or as non-binary.

Some young trans, intersex, and gender non-binary people may decide to take puberty blockers after talking about it with their parents or guardian and a nurse or doctor.

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don’t see how it’s transphobic to think that an underage kid, with an undeveloped brain, might not be capable of making educated, permanent, life-altering decisions like this. Maybe the rest of you were all child prodigies, but I was a complete moron even at 18. There’s no way I should have been allowed to start a medication like that without first consulting several health professionals. Especially so, given that I did go through a few years in my teens where I felt like I was in the wrong body and got depressed because of it. It then turns out that no, I'm actually happy being male, I just like cock too.

[+] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Don’t forget going through an unwanted puberty also has lifelong permanent effects

This is the best argument for starting early which is exactly what makes this topic so difficult and why nuanced discussion about it needs to be had rather than just calling the people transphobes who advocate for caution. If there was a way to make sure they're not going to change their minds later then starting with the treatment as early as possible would seems like the obvious way to go, but it's not quite that simple. And no, I'm not for blanket bans either.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

If there was a way to make sure they're not going to change their minds later then starting with the treatment as early as possible would seems like the obvious way to go, but it's not quite that simple.

Except that's fine if they do? If you stop taking puberty blockers, you start going through puberty. This is not some magic irreversible medication or something, for the ~1% that do change their mind this isn't an issue.

I could maybe see this argument work for gender reassignment surgery, but not for puberty blockers.

We should let healthcare experts make healthcare decisions.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Permanent decisions is a keyword here. Puberty blockers do just delay puberty for while they are taken. The kid can still go though their assigned at birth puberty at a later age, however they would not be able to fully undo the life altering consequences of going through the wrong puberty. So why are puberty blockers being banned? Remember this is not about giving kids treatment to go through a different puberty then assigned at birth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

❤️exactly this!