No pediatrician is going to be giving 10 year old any sort of hormonal therapy unless things are seriously out of whack (ie something like congenital adrenal hyperplasia) however the usual standard of care for children who are experiencing any sort of gender dysphoria is to put them on puberty blockers which simply delays puberty until they are old enough to choose.
The transgender care that children receive gives them a choice in how their body develops they would not otherwise have.
My controversial opinion is that all children should be encouraged to take puberty blockers in addition to having a say in how their body develops it has additional benefits of: significant reduction in teen pregnancies, reduced sexualization of minors, reduced stress during a time when a lot is already changing, etc.
Frankly, at this point, I am done with the hand wringing of cis conservatives and centrists. All these points have been asked and answered a hundred times. We have documented existence of trans people going back three thousand years. I am done with pandering to these willfully ignorant fucks.
Puberty blockers were meant to the compromise. We agreed to force trans kids to wait until they’re done with high school to experience puberty, all to assuage the hand wringing of bad faith ignorant assholes. Puberty blockers WERE the compromise.
I’m done. I am fucking done. If I know any trans kid in need of HRT, I’m going to give them all the information they need to DIY and order the full hormones they need directly off the net. I don’t care if their parents approve or not. I’ve run out of patience for these motherfuckers. People can take their concerns about “unsupervised medical treatments” and shove them up their ass. They lost the right to complain about such things when you turned their back on trans kids.
No pediatrician is going to be giving 10 year old any sort of hormonal therapy unless things are seriously out of whack (ie something like congenital adrenal hyperplasia) however the usual standard of care for children who are experiencing any sort of gender dysphoria is to put them on puberty blockers which simply delays puberty until they are old enough to choose.
The transgender care that children receive gives them a choice in how their body develops they would not otherwise have.
My controversial opinion is that all children should be encouraged to take puberty blockers in addition to having a say in how their body develops it has additional benefits of: significant reduction in teen pregnancies, reduced sexualization of minors, reduced stress during a time when a lot is already changing, etc.
Frankly, at this point, I am done with the hand wringing of cis conservatives and centrists. All these points have been asked and answered a hundred times. We have documented existence of trans people going back three thousand years. I am done with pandering to these willfully ignorant fucks.
Puberty blockers were meant to the compromise. We agreed to force trans kids to wait until they’re done with high school to experience puberty, all to assuage the hand wringing of bad faith ignorant assholes. Puberty blockers WERE the compromise.
I’m done. I am fucking done. If I know any trans kid in need of HRT, I’m going to give them all the information they need to DIY and order the full hormones they need directly off the net. I don’t care if their parents approve or not. I’ve run out of patience for these motherfuckers. People can take their concerns about “unsupervised medical treatments” and shove them up their ass. They lost the right to complain about such things when you turned their back on trans kids.