This is a hard thing for many parents to hear. While young children need guidance, and even older children may be vulnerable, these are autonomous beings with their own sense of personhood. Eventually YAs must take their own steps, even if parents feel they are the wrong ones...https://twitter.com/4th_WaveNow/status/1194303807573970946 …
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Replying to @SashaLPC @4th_WaveNow
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that these young adults are getting cross-sex hormones via informed consent clinics (including Planned Parenthood) without any, repeat, ANY diagnostics, with no wait time to treat underlying issues like trauma, OCD, etc, first. This is scandalous.
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With brain development not finished until at least age 25, why this odd rolling over on the idea that YAs are truly autonomous? They're very vulnerable to the ideology, often born of anxiety, MH issues.
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Of course--criticizing the med-psych system that promotes transition is one thing, but how do you talk about (& with) young adults, who for better or worse, have legal/autonomous right to access these interventions? Especially when they disagree with you that they were harmed?
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Right. Everyone creates their own meaning from life circumstances & the choices they've made. And we all move through stages of development. What may feel like a horrible error to a parent may feel like an opportunity to become more self-aware and 'initiated' by the young person
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Still, the safeguarding that used to be in place has been totally removed. How was my female child able to even get her hands on testosterone so easily? It was super easy. Her reasoning to transition (friendship problems with other girls) never questioned.
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And the med-psych system that enabled it needs to be challenged. At the same time, legal adults are going to do what they do. So what public strategies will be most effective in accomplishing the former while acknowledging the latter? That's the question.
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A public campaign focusing on universities that have student health plans covering hormones and SRS could be effective.
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