QuoteIt is one thing for an adult to make the informed decision to transition, quite another for doctors to help children transition.
We can't generalize about it: each case is unique. I feel we must trust the medical profession, but objectively speaking, I can understand the concerns of those who feel that maybe some doctors and even parents are just too willing to experiment with treatment, and perhaps should hold off.
What exactly is this person suggesting?
That children, complaining of transgender, shouldn't be permitted to express their preferred gender?
How would this be achieved? Forcing them into sports and gender specific activities. Perhaps beating the crap out of them to make them tough?
Or perhaps, we could simply treat them with more traditional remedies? But wait, those are also drugs. Drugs to calm them down. Drugs to alter the way they think. Drugs to slow down their thinking process. I don't suppose the tardive dyskinesia is really of as much concern as allowing little boys to invade the women's movement. (Spys??)
Sorry to sound cynical but the naysayers seem to have turned their attentions to children full square now. But the problem is they don't seem to have any concrete workable suggestions as alternatives.
Because speaking as someone who was treated to the thrills of being beaten to make me a man and joys of mind altering drugs to stop me complaining, followed by the allure of orientation affirmation when I was considered old enough, I can say to these people, it doesn't work.
