He's pushing a line that *by default* we should *deny* care. Not just transition, but puberty blockers to delay the choice. We don't know everything, but we do know enough to know that puberty blockers and openness to later transition are by far net positives.
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Replying to @AsaZernik @sadydoyle and
Not sure about the claims you're making here, but what do you think of that part of the Hippocratic Oath where it says "first do no harm"?
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Replying to @MichaShrine @AsaZernik and
I'm not asking anyone to "do harm", in fact I don't want them to do anything Sit there on your ass playing Candy Crush or whatever, just stay out of the way of people doing what they want
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AsaZernik and
If I'm not mistaken, you believe that children who believe they want it should never be delayed, let alone denied by anyone. Not their parents. Not by anyone in the medical profession. Never.
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Replying to @MichaShrine @AsaZernik and
I know you guys like the strawman of unattended piles of free hormones in the park but my preferred policy solution is prescriptions dispensed on the informed consent model, which in a decent world would be seen as the compromise position between OTC HRT and medical gatekeeping
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AsaZernik and
Are you okay with a qualified physician dispensing a professional opinion to someone that their dysmorphia is something they will probably grow out of?
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Replying to @MichaShrine @arthur_affect and
First off it's dysphoria not dysmorphia, second no they probably won't grow out of it.
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Replying to @RadFemme74 @arthur_affect and
Thanks for the correction. Childhood is a time for exploration. Why wouldn't a kid dabble in various identities? Seems closed minded to assume otherwise.
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Replying to @MichaShrine @arthur_affect and
Have you ever actually talked to trans people about their childhoods? And why not just accept trans people as is? Why do people like you always insist trans people need to justify ourselves? Other than you want an excuse to strip trans people of our rights.
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Replying to @RadFemme74 @arthur_affect and
You're attributing opinions to me that I do not have. I'm suggesting an alternative to your binary thinking on this. 1. Trans people exist and should be supported. 2. Some kids who feel trans at a certain age turn out not to be. Both of those statements are true IMO.
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Cool That's fine They should live their lives however makes them happy Saying that they've been "irreparably damaged" and that "thinking you're trans when you're not" is this grievous harm is fundamentally transphobic though
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MichaShrine and
The thing is, if you take a strictly neutral view of it -- "Thinking you're trans when you're cis and thinking you're cis when you're trans are exactly equally bad" -- the prevalence of the latter is obviously so much higher that bringing up the former as a problem is a sick joke
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MichaShrine and
But yes I know you're carrying water for obnoxious conservatives who play this card with every damn thing "If you think about it, *Christians* are the most oppressed religion in this country" "The people most pressured to renounce their sexuality these days are *straight*"
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