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They voted for body autonomy to discontinue all mask mandates, but then vote to ban body autonomy for children, even with their parents and doctors consent.
Good for nothing Hippocrates.
If the CPC gets in power they will erode women's rights as a priority over climate change and homelessness.
They will bring back banned weapons as a priority to the drug and mental health care crisis.
They will erode education as a priority to food and access to affordable housing.
Rednecks will vote for cool Millhouse to own the Libs and defend their 1st and 2nd amendment rights.
Idiocracy had come home to roost.
I thought this was in Canada.
It is. Unfortunately many conservatives don't understand that we have our own set of amendments completely separate from the US. Except for the few that really really want to recognize that everyone is equal and that Manitoba is a province.
Let's just hope liberal voters stop owning themselves by voting for the LPC instead of the NDP.
Children are young and impressionable.
I don't know if it's smart to let them do whatever they want to their bodies.
Okay, I hear you. That is a valid concern, and it's good to care about the health and welfare of transgendered children.
May I ask you, and this is an honest question. Why should we deny proven care to a family that has involved a specialist doctor's help?
The family isn't going down to the mall to have ears pierced. This is life changing, and life saving treatment.
The problem is that it's life changing. Getting ears pierced isn't going to follow you all the way through life.
I'm not saying we should grant or deny anyone anything. I'm highlighting how it's at least conceivable that children will make the wrong decisions for themselves because they do not have the life experience to know who they are and how other people want to change them.
Just as people may find out later in life that they are gay because of all the straight-propaganda, it's possible a child may find out later in life they're not really trans and fell for the influence of others. By then, it may be too late.
The real question would be: should we deny this treatment for everyone just because some people may regret it?
Your concern has been the medical and psychological concern for a while.
This recent research has found that top surgery has a very small rate of regret. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstract/2808129?guestAccessKey=43a62af8-3042-4678-b29d-3430c3ff98c1
Given that people are happy with their life changing treatment, the regret is often they wish they could have treatment sooner.
Puberty is a bitch when your straight. Especially given the powerful norms you are expected to fill having your body transform into an alien sexual body. Puberty can result in devastating psychological issues.
You don't identify your body as your own, and people look at you as a sexual object. So what do you do?
This is medical science, progress has been slow and steady for the past 40 years on this topic. The science is there to back up this treatment.
I support your concern. But given the science and the proof of the effects of this treatment, we have to accept it, and leave it to the parents, the professionals, and the child to make the decisions.
That's fair.