There’s a school in Brighton where 76 students - 1/20 of the entire student population- declared themselves trans or gender fluid.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-groups-under-fire-f...
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-groups-under-fire-f...
However, the only acceptable treatment for trans-presenting children is 100% acceptance and affirmation, including a continuing push for puberty-stopping medication.
Given that, then I say there is a risk of harm. If some of those children aren’t trans, but they are being told they are and are given hormones, who knows what damage will happen to them.
> However, the only acceptable treatment for trans-presenting children is 100% acceptance and affirmation
This is a bit reductive isn’t it? You can take them at their word while observing and interrogating in an age-appropriate way. If that means others need to treat the kids as if they’re 100% trans while their guardians work on it then so be it
> including a continuing push for puberty-stopping medication.
Only relevant when puberty is about to begin and kids need more time to solidify their identity
> If some of those children aren’t trans, but they are being told they are and are given hormones
Kids don’t get hormones. At the most extreme they get puberty blockers, which are generally safe and given to many other people in many other contexts for many other reasons
No its not, perhaps I can clarify and say the only socially accepted treatment is affirmation. Please, feel free to presnent one case in the past 5 years where a doctor has attempted to explore if a child is really trans and not been harassed?
> Kids don’t get hormones. At the most extreme they get puberty blockers
Puberty blockers are hormones. And just because a drug is safe in one context for one group of patients, doesn't mean its "safe" - ivermectin is a safe anti-parasitic drug for humans, but is dangerous for people with COVID.
Putting the obvious political agenda aside, I would argue teenage girls faking tourettes is pretty much the same phenomenon as teenage girls faking gender dysphoria. It's not helpful to pretend that faking tragic mental conditions isn't a phenomenon among teenagers.
The same was one-hundred percent true about homosexuality for nearly all of human history in most societies. If the "day-to-day problems" are because other people are mindlessly hateful and intolerant, who exactly has the mental health issue? In terms of homosexuality, we now largely agree it is the bigots, not the queers, who have the problem.
I would also point out that the the trans community themselves are advocating for greater access to treatment, not less. It's really not the same as the gay rights movement. Unlike gay people, treatment is literally one of their objectives.
Gender dysphoria is feeling uncomfortable in your gender-at-birth. Therefore, transitioning or rejecting the concept of the gender isn't the disease — it's a cure for the disease.
Of course, that transition also usually leads to other types of discomforts caused by other people not respecting their decision, but hey, it's not trans people's fault other people are dickheads.