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Title: Concern for Trans Children
Post by: Shana A on March 12, 2012, 04:12:11 PM
Post by: Shana A on March 12, 2012, 04:12:11 PM
Concern for Trans Children
March 11, 2012. 6:48 pm • Section: Trans Talk
Posted by: Jillian Page
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/03/11/concern-for-trans-children/ (http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/03/11/concern-for-trans-children/)
A reader sent me a link today to an opinion piece in an American newspaper about children who are being given HRT. It doesn't really matter which newspaper it was in or the religious reasonings of the writer: the bottom line is, the writer — like many other people — is worried about the health and welfare of children who are being given hormone therapy in the form of puberty-blocking drugs until they can have sexual reassignment surgery.
Can you blame people for being concerned?
It is one thing for an adult to make the informed decision to transition, quite another for doctors to help children transition.
March 11, 2012. 6:48 pm • Section: Trans Talk
Posted by: Jillian Page
http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/03/11/concern-for-trans-children/ (http://blogs.montrealgazette.com/2012/03/11/concern-for-trans-children/)
A reader sent me a link today to an opinion piece in an American newspaper about children who are being given HRT. It doesn't really matter which newspaper it was in or the religious reasonings of the writer: the bottom line is, the writer — like many other people — is worried about the health and welfare of children who are being given hormone therapy in the form of puberty-blocking drugs until they can have sexual reassignment surgery.
Can you blame people for being concerned?
It is one thing for an adult to make the informed decision to transition, quite another for doctors to help children transition.
Title: Re: Concern for Trans Children
Post by: lilacwoman on March 12, 2012, 04:39:58 PM
Post by: lilacwoman on March 12, 2012, 04:39:58 PM
well I was asking the doctor for help when I was 14 and that was back in the dark ages when the word transsexual wasn't even known so I have to think that today a child of 8-12 would be well aware of their real nature.
Little kids of 4-7 claiming to be transgender might be future gays not future girls.
Little kids of 4-7 claiming to be transgender might be future gays not future girls.
Title: Re: Concern for Trans Children
Post by: spacial on March 12, 2012, 04:49:00 PM
Post by: spacial on March 12, 2012, 04:49:00 PM
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.