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At 16 already I knew that children needed protection from people that wanted to exploit them sexually. Like decent people do.
Get over yourself. You don't know better than the experts who study this. Your uneducated and ignorant laymans opinion is noted.
I'm very glad that I did not follow the course of my life that I had thought it would be at 16/17. It's likely teenagers with gender dysphoria do not have a grasp on their identity or sexuality, and therefore it's best they wait until they're older. I personally feel even 18 is a bit too young for medical transitioning. When I was 18 I got what I thought was an amazing tattoo that I put a lot of thought into and thought I wanted it for life. Now, at 27, I'd rather not have that tattoo. I can't imagine making a decision to sexually mutilate myself at that age and grow up no longer feeling that way.
We often know before we're teens. And you mentioning a tattoo in comparison? That's pretty weak.
No, you are hypocritical about it. Banning plastic bags is a very tiny inconvenience for you. Banning puberty blockers for trans kids can affect them negatively in a major way for the rest of their lives. You need a bit of perspective.
"experts"? Oh, you mean people that want to "help" minors through sexual mutilation.
The tattoo was a decision I made based on how I felt at the time, who I thought I was. The fact that it is nowhere as drastic as a medical transition is exactly my point: people that age don't always fully understand themselves and make rash decisions. One rash decision as irreversible as a gender swap is clearly not a good thing.
The problem with being tans is that when they go through puberty they go through changes that they cannot undo. They can still go through puberty later, may have some effects from a late puberty if they change their mind, but it is a smaller difference than if they were genuinely trans and went through puberty. It is their life, they should have more control over it than a state legislature that has no clue about who needs the medication and who does not. This is not a health based decision of the legislature. It is a very prejudiced and probably religion based decision. It is unconstitutional on the face of it.
I don’t understand much about hormones. It’s hard for me to believe there would be minimal repercussions for having a late puberty. I mean, what if you take hormone blockers up until age 17 or 20? Surely hormone blockers aren’t taken for life. There must be an age where the blocked puberty becomes permanent. Or even worse, a young girl taking testosterone to increase puberty but later deciding she wish she had stayed feminine?
I am far from a medical expert myself. There are several things you need to consider. A trans person cannot do this on their own. To get the drugs a doctor or more likely doctors would have to prescribe the drugs and they will not do so on a whim. They will be far more aware of the consequences either way than you or I. At this point your tattoo analogy already fails because you would have gotten your tattoo all on your own.
Hey, I was the only girl in my drafting class! In 1979. Thankfully the teacher didn't treat me any differently from the buys in the class.
And once again, this is a misrepresentation of what is going on. It is never the kid's choice alone. Doctors would have to agree that the child is trans and order the drugs.
Well as long as it was not a math class I guess that is okay. Girls can't do math.
Are you aware of how easy it used to be, and likely still is, to get a doctors diagnosis for ADD and get medication for it? We shouldn’t pretend that doctors are infallible or that it is beyond a teenager’s ability to exaggerate things (not necessarily intentionally) and manipulate the doctors diagnosis that way.
