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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Ok kids being socially brainwashed into transitioning is a thing and we should stop it, but also I am pretty wary of people saying *all* childhood transitions should be unequivocally stopped. There's absolutely some people out there for whom it's actually the right choice!
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@Aella_Girl
Much as I'm wary about people trying to point out people who feel harmed by sex work as an excuse to ban all sex work, because it clearly overlooks the many people like me, I'm wary about people failing to take into account the diversity of trans experiences here.
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
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@Aella_Girl
I am not saying the issue is easy, or that there's a clear way to never make an error, I'm just saying that the answer of "ban it all" is going to actually, genuinely hurt a lot of people, who will view you as an enemy who doesn't give a shit about them.
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@Aella_Girl
(For clarity, I'm referring mostly to hormones here, which - correct me if I'm wrong - I understand as having different effects if you wait to take them. It seems reasonable to wait until 18 to have any permanent surgeries)
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@delporteart
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@Aella_Girl
Experience of “something” is not justification for a medical procedure. Banning childhood sex work is about consent. If this were rare enough that basically no one ever heard about it, I might think that there was a necessary medical condition being treated.
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Avalanche Blue
@avalanchelucy
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I'm willing to risk being criminalized if it's true that a society with criminalized prostitution leads to fewer of those harmful outcomes than a society with decriminalized prostitution. Empirically I'm not sure which is worse.
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