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
Fuck you no, because it further stigmatizes those of us for whom it doesn't go away, and potentially makes us deal with decades if dysphoria. The medical professionals I have interacted with around transness have been so shitty, with only a few exceptions.
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Replying to @polerin @MichaShrine and
And don't act like doctors "professional opinions" on matters like this aren't strongly affected by the transphobic society they are a part of. Transness isn't the fallback plan, there is not only nothing wrong with being trans, it can be pretty dang awesome.
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Replying to @polerin @arthur_affect and
Dr Erica Anderson says otherwise. Every patient is a unique case. Sometimes doing nothing is the best course of action for certain people. I don't understand why this upsets you.
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Replying to @MichaShrine @polerin and
If someone wants to "do nothing" about their gender then of course "doing nothing" is the right course of action The vast majority of all people today are in fact "doing nothing" and no one is objecting to that
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If someone WANTS to transition and you put up resistance, you're not "doing nothing" Framing this response as "doing nothing" is fundamentally transphobic
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