most trans women don't start estrogen until our 20's or older, way past puberty. i would have developed *identically* to cis girls (apart from genitals) if i started injection hormones at my puberty. but society and family discourages and punishes transness, so we wait :/
Fine. The problem is then: 1 The accuracy of diagnosis in the first instance 2 One of expected values eg, if the odds of being trans vs desisting is 50 50, and the harm of not allowing transition is even incrementally greater than the harm of allowing it, transition is indicated
-
-
Oversimplified, but assuming this could be true, we would need to actually find out whether transition really is even incrementally better. And we cannot do this without experimenting on children.
-
I don't see how that's worse than testing psych meds on kids, or bizarre communist social experiments on kids, or forcing religious indoctrination on them, or myriad other things presently done without scruples
- Show replies
New conversation -
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.