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I have frank discussions about gender & sexuality | FTM | http://aaronterrell.substack.com 

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    Aaron Terrell‏ @elegationvain Apr 1

    🧵on why I don’t think children should ever be physically transitioned. I used to think certain cases of childhood GD should be treated with physical transition. I used to wish I had been able to transition as a child. GD was brutal & I never outgrew it. 1/

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      2. Aaron Terrell‏ @elegationvain Apr 1

        But if I had transitioned as a child how would I have known I wouldn’t outgrow it? After all the vast majority of kids with GD do outgrow it. Think of all the trans young people who are going to grow up & wonder if transition was necessary. How can it not be 100% of them? 2/

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      3. Aaron Terrell‏ @elegationvain Apr 1

        At least wondering if they could be whole & healthy as the sex they were born. Maybe they wouldn’t have outgrown it & transition did save them a lot of mental turmoil. But they will never know. 3/

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      4. Aaron Terrell‏ @elegationvain Apr 1

        People advocating pediatric transition seem to lose sight of the fact that there is nothing wrong with these kids bodies. Nothing! It is in their head or it is in their culture. That needs to be addressed first & foremost & if GD persists to adulthood, by all means transition.

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      5. Aaron Terrell‏ @elegationvain Apr 1

        I’d love to get @jessesingal take on this.

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      2. maggie‏ @oatsandmag Apr 1
        Replying to @elegationvain

        I agree. I wished and begged my parents to let me transition as a kid. I still have dysphoria, but I’m managing it now. If I had transitioned when I was in high school, I wouldn’t have known that I could ever accept myself as I am. I would have robbed myself of the chance.

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      3.  🕷️The Hierophant HildegardP‏ @HildegardP Apr 1
        Replying to @oatsandmag @elegationvain

        Exactly. I thought transition was the only answer - it wasn't, it was just the first answer I heard of, & like AS kids often do, I got stuck on my answer. Time, & actually going through puberty & getting my amygdala back to normal helped & gave me space to discover other answers.

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      2.  〽️ars  ⚓️‏ @UpperhandMars Apr 1
        Replying to @elegationvain

        Most of us and if not all of us would have preferred more time to have transitioned earlier. But you’re not given much of a chance for anything when the decision is stolen from you by adults making a long-term decision for you when you’re a child.

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      3. Mathilda assigned stubborn at birth Ravenclaw  🖤 🧡‏ @RavenclawMorgan Apr 1
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        Nature has her own time and no parent can change that.

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      1. John 'don't ask me to T' McDonnell‏ @mcdonnelljp Apr 1
        Replying to @elegationvain

        I have also been on this journey. The problem is that gd is subjective, which means accurate diagnosis is hard. If we had a method that guaranteed neither false positives nor false negatives, I might support paediatric transition, but even then there are trade-offs.

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      2. Denny Regrade.  🏳️‍🌈‏ @DennyRegrade Apr 2
        Replying to @elegationvain

        As a gay man, I believe that I would have been misdiagnosed as transgender as a child were I a child today.

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