Seriously! No one does it on a whim or for shíts and giggles!

Sorry, but teenagers with their raging hormones don't always know what they want or do. Would you say the same about the machete wielding teenagers?

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"Your ignorance is astonishing." Why? The word he used is "kids" so he is 100% correct in that context. You are talking about coworkers those are adults... Charlize Theron's 2 kids who were "trans" at 4 years old... You cannot seriously be defending that sort of thing... So I say Ignorance can go both ways... THIS IS DEFINITELY a trend of some parents who do it to say "LOOK AT ME I AM SUCH AN ALLY" Just like it is wrong to deprive adults from the choice of transitioning... So is conditioning children as young as 4 years old... Before they even know what sex is... It is to me as bad as baptism or circumcisions all other barbaric practices that rob people from their choices in life... As in dictates it for them via indoctrination... So yeh it is a trend in that sense...

There have been enough recorded instances of kids being inducted into it by psychotic parents or deciding to do it outside of clinical gender dysphoria that you can call it a phase for some... I don't think it is ok to assume he is calling every person who decides to transition as "going thought a phase"... Nowhere does he say that... I know this is avery charged topic but at least judge a person by the words they write and not whatever political culture was is going on... I really can't wait for tech to advance so far that this issue is moved past. Once altering DNA and manufacturing human organs is mastered we can finally move past the ACTUAL controversial part... The irreversible nature of the procedures and the fact they dont produce a perfect result. That has alwyas felt a bit of a scam to me. That they are selling the transition as perfect...

Campy, it tells me you decided to read no further to find out why they did it. You would be surprised at the differences between European and American health standards. Why did this particular one interest you and not say all the differences in prescription d***s allowed? Seems a bit odd.

The same d***s that are used for medical castration that leads to irreversible infertility

I don’t know why you’re down voted. Because morons who think they should have an opinion about something they know nothing about. I’m a smell. But I at least f*****g know that Ginger affirming care is hormone replacement therapy or puberty, blockers, both which are reversible and both which are used in many other cases besides gender affirmation.

Reversible? Where have you got this nonsense from, there are long term medical implications and a vast absence of information and studies on the long term effects on children. For blockers those 'many other uses' are precocious puberty (where it is harmful to a child at that early age) yet they will still go through puberty at the correct developmental age and chemical castration.

That nonsense comes from science and medicine, Patricia. So many uneducated people talking about trans rights and up voting the worst offenders. Learn a little about trans people before spewing ignorance online.

I'll say it again. UK, Sweden, Germany, italy, Netherlands, Belgium, France and Denmark have either banned or restricted puberty blockers and hormone treatments for children. Because those educated professionals know enough to know they don't enough about the long term consequences because there just isn't enough data. Assumptions and feelings aren't facts.

I'll say it again ISeeFractals, do you know why they decided to do that or did you stay ignorant on the subject? Why is this difference so notable to you and not the myriad of other differences in medical care. Like say the availability of certain prescriptions?

Hmmm....well as i already said.....there's not enough long term clinical data available on the long term effects....as i already said. Twice. The data that is available has yielded questionable results as to whether or not it's actually, ya know....a beneficial thing to provide children....which is why they've restricted hormones to clinical settings, and only for those who've gone through extensive psychotherapy and only for patients over the age of 12 which is to say....those who've already started puberty. All of which boils down to......they know enough to know they don't know enough regarding the long term effects and aren't being swayed by the uninformed screaming accusations of transphobia.

You just have no idea how medicine works. You are nothing but a bigot. Your replies to me clearly show that.

People like you ignore everything and everyone that doesn't nod along in support of whatever conclusion you've arrived at, pretending that conclusion isn't based on feelings and some vague sense of morality. Isla Bryson....who adopted that name only after getting arrested for RAPING MULTIPLE WOMEN. Threw on a cheap wig and some dollar store women's cloths and took advantage of the "self identify" nonsense. No hormones, no surgery, just empty words...which their wife clearly stated, was a BS scam....and what happened? The convicted rapist, with a penis got sent to a female prison. That's not a "what if" it's not theoretical. It happened, and it's not an isolated case. But people like you just want to label anyone with valid, and reasonable concerns as "phobic" or "bigots" in order to dismiss them. That you're ignorant of the consequences, doesn't mean they aren't there. For people like you, facts are only facts so long as they support your feelings.

You are the type of person that sees a black man steal and automatically thinks all black men steal. You are clearly that despicable terrible type of human scum that will broad brush an entire population of people based on one individual's actions. You need to get your head checked if that is how you operate. You don't take rights away from a group of people based on one individual's action. You seriously suck as a human! Do you think a woman hasn't been raped by a woman in the women's bathroom? Do you want to ban women the women's bathroom too? I can't really put into words how monumentally stupid this type of thinking is. It is pretty much the genesis bigotry.

Hey, I absolutely agree with that don't get me wrong

You haven't seen any of those cases, you gross terf

You are making up your facts and you know it, everyone knows it

What cases? Links?

Well? Also it’s hilarious that someone with the username Lola would be anti-trans.

Lola July made that up. There is literally no evidence of that at all. Totally fictional.

I've never heard of incidents like this.