• McNasty@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    Doctors do shit for money.

    They’ll recommend whatever the parent asks for.

    I want universal healthcare and even UBI, but this shit is just child abuse.

    Edit to add: if you want to cut your dick off and call yourself a girl as an adult, I don’t care. If you convince your kids doctor to chemically castrate them, you should go to jail.

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      3 months ago

      Are you talking about medically delaying puberty? You’re aware that’s done with cis kids more often than trans kids, right?

      I don’t see how it’s child abuse when prescribed to a minor with gender dysphoria, but totally fine when it’s a minor with precocious puberty.

      For many trans people, having the option to postpone irrevocable changes brought on by puberty has massive mental health benefits for the rest of their lives. I feel like you have to be pretty jaded and dismissive to just categorize that as abuse out of hand.

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        3 months ago

        Good God!

        You’ve completely changed my mind!

        I’m putting my kids on puberty blockers right now!

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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          3 months ago

          If you’re going to implicitly compare something like doctors abusing peoples trust to push things like opiates onto the population as a whole to providing specialized healthcare to a percent of a percent of the population, you’ve already succumb to brain rot and there will be no productive conversation to be had. Cheers, man.