How many sterilized, surgically rejiggered "false positive" trans kids who regret it as adults are acceptable? One? Two? A thousand?
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11. Anyone who has raised a kid knows young children don't lie to loving parents. They don't even know how.
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12. Parents of "rapid-onset" kids have watched w/ our own eyes as our tomboy daughters, happy in their bodies for 15 years, suddenly morph
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13. Almost always after binging on trans social media, into angry strangers spouting self-hatred that sounds oddly scripted and false.
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14. For15 years at ease in her body, then, over a 2-week period, insists with sudden-onset rage that she needs T & top surgery.
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15. This is real; it is troubling; & trans activists do themselves no favors by denying what we've witnessed in our own lives, our own homes
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16. Therapists we looked to for help said only: Affirm. Affirm yr daughter's sudden self-hate, at age when all girls begin to doubt selves.
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17. Some of our daughters are lesbian, w/added burden of coming to terms w/ that, dealing with rejection from their straight-girl crushes.
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18. How much better to be a MAN, as the YouTube transman stars proclaim! Those straight girls will want me if I'm a man!
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19. Testosterone IS magic in its power to transform the outward appearance of a female body. The buff transmen celebrities ARE handsome.
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20. A perfect storm: The once-happy tomboy, now a teen anxious re: puberty, her sexuality...watching trans-men celebs, young, gym-toned...
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21. Females young enough to withstand onslaught of testosterone in doses her body was never equipped to handle. http://transhealth.ucsf.edu/trans?page=guidelines-pain-transmen …pic.twitter.com/UnaBZFrR53
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22. Our rapid-onset teens, whether lesbian or straight, naturally drawn to this escape. Young brains geared to risk-taking/instant reward.
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23. Settled knowledge in developmental psychology tells us that the job of adults is to protect adolescents from their own impulsivity.
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24. Yet teen impulsivity has now been reified--not just by activists but by clinicians whose ethical duty should be to explore root causes.
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25. Not 'transphobic' to ask for public discussion of ROOT CAUSES of massive increase in trans-ID'ed girls. It's the right thing to do.pic.twitter.com/Dw0BE7WaKP
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