Since tumblr is acting up, I’ll write the response to @goddess-nerd latest reblog here. [main post here]
I’d like to start with this amazing video where two trans individuals, a trans man and a trans woman, recount their transition story and speak about the issue of “trans kids” and how this is doing more harm to the trans community than good:
So, your wild claims of wanting to "erase trans kids" are null and void.
Now to the main response:
First, therapy for gender dysphoria can and in most cases does involves the introduction and usage of hormone blockers (majority Lupron) and testosterone/estogen injections.
"For young girls, Lupron was approved to delay the onset of puberty. Off-label, doctors commonly use it to help pediatric patients grow taller. But interviews with women who received the injections for at least a decade as children, conducted by Kaiser Health News, suggest that the drug causes lifelong health problems.
The problems documented in the Kaiser report include extremely brittle bones, anxiety, and seizures. In fact, the FDA told Kaiser Health News that it is currently reviewing the effect that Lupron has on pediatric patients and their nervous systems. But the agency has not yet placed a warning on the drug’s pediatric version describing the potential risk of seizures, bone loss, or mood disorders."
As for its use and of other drugs in "gender affirming therapies":
"The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has documented thousands of deaths linked to the puberty-blocking drugs now increasingly given to children who suffer from gender dysphoria or claim to be “transgender.”
Between 2013 and June 2019, FDA recorded 41,213 adverse events, including 6,379 deaths and 25,645 “serious” reactions in patients who took the hormone blocker known as Lupron — the same drug given to children who say their gender identity is not consistent with their biological sex.
Lupron is also being used — without formal FDA approval — as a puberty blocker on the increasing number of children and adolescents who are being diagnosed in the U.S. and the U.K. with gender dysphoria. This is being done — with the support of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Endocrine Society — despite the fact there is no evidence that such hormonal treatments actually benefit children and adolescents with gender dysphoria."
"St. Louis-based pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Paul Hruz also told the Christian Post there is much that is unknown about giving hormone blockers like Lupron to children.
“It’s often claimed that medical blockade of puberty allows a child more time to sort out issues of their gender identity, that it alleviates dysphoria in affected children, and that it makes it easier if and when they choose to go on and get other treatments, namely [sex change] surgery,” he said. “It’s also claimed that it’s completely safe and reversible.”
Hruz noted Lupron does influence bone density, and since adolescence is a time when young people accumulate the bone mass essential for the rest of their lives, there is cause for concern about whether a young person can gain back bone density once they go off the drug.
“The reality is that there is no long-term data about treating children, and the only data that we have in adults indicates that medical interventions to align the appearance of the body to a transgendered identity does not fix the problem,” he said."
So why would doctors prescribe dangerous and deadly medication, usually used on child predators, to children? Easy, money:
“Gender-transitioning hormone treatments have been successful for pharmaceutical companies. In 2017, AbbVie, which produces Lupron, observed sales of the drug were $669 million just in the United States alone.
California-based endocrinologist and specialist on childhood gender dysphoria Dr. Michael Laidlaw has noted the medical industry is looking at a “windfall” as a result of patients seeking out treatment for gender dysphoria.
“Big pharma, big hospital systems, surgical centers and doctors seek to gain huge profits,” Laidlaw said. “Lupron … monthly is $775 alone. That’s a $27,000 ‘pause button’ at 5 years [of age]. Multiply this together with the huge rise in cases documented or observed in Western nations and a major windfall is to be had.”
These therapies are then closely followed by irreversable surgeries, since "doctors" and "psychologist" engourage young kids/teens to get them as soon as possible. Look at the fast tracking, fear mongering lies doctors tell kids and their parents, the “if you don’t transition you’ll die/your child will die” falsehood that is actually harming kids.
This is why it's important to support the child going through gender dysphoria (which by age 18, 98% grows out of the dysphoria and 75% to 80% come out as gay/lesbians or bisexuals) and not rush said child, who cannot consent, to undergo life changing medical procedures.
If the child, once in adulthood, still has gender dysphoria then they'll be able to undergo transition with a full understanding of what it entails and will be able to consent to them.
So to answer your question: "Why are you so concerned with childrens privates?" I'm not.
I'm concerned for the wellbeing of those who cannot give consent, are very impressionable and are often groomed and lied to by adults (teachers, doctors, physologist, even parents) to undergo irreversable medical procedures without fully comprehend what the repercussions will be (some adults fall victim to this also). Not to mention, since they're children, once in adulthood they may not feel the same way.
Now, why are you so obssesed with childrens privates and defend their mutilation?
Also, I can't be a "terf" because: 1 that's not a real word and, 2 I actually care about trans lives and their wellbeing.
"Writing at the Witherspoon Institute’s Public Discourse, attorney Jane Robbins observed those diagnosed with gender dysphoria “have high rates of suicide before treatment (with the rate of suicide attempts nine times the rate of the general population).”
She noted a study from Sweden — a nation known for its “affirmation” of transgender individuals — showed that gender-affirming treatment actually “does not reduce the suicide rate for these patients. In fact, their rate of completed suicide was found to be 19 times the rate for the general population.”"
"Also if you’re telling your kid what they are that’s not love."
I don't tell them “what they are”, unlike gender clinics. What I'm saying is to SUPPORT THE CHILD (meaning: give confidence or comfort to) and NOT have them undergo IRREVERSABLE MEDICAL PROCEDURES when they can’t fully consent. Encouraging your child to inject themselves with drugs and chop off body parts is not love. It's not that hard to comprehend.
"What are you doing to prevent shooters? Help the kids at the border?"
First, unrelated issues people like you always deflect to when faced with facts. But, okay, I'll play your game:
1. School shootings are horrible events that sadly happen and their prevention is a complex topic. Nothing can be said for certain. What we know is that usually the perpetrator is a student of the school with a lenghty history, sometimes undocumented, of mental issues or behavioural issues.
The ways to prevent them could be: for parents to talk to their kids and be present in their lives; promote gun safety and regulations to keep them away from unwell individuals (many shootings have been prevented by people carrying guns); create an environment where everyone sees each other as actual people and have bonds with (built the community).
Obviously the solution is not easy and will take time to resolve, but just like the kids being exploited by gender clinics and big pharma, the safety of the most vulnerable is of the utmost importance.
2. There was actually a law that protected those kids from traffickers, drowning in the Rio Grande and dying in the desert. It was the "stay in Mexico policy". Under that policy, every person (children included) where given refuge in Mexico, where their identities would be confirmed and then processed to be brought into the US. The children would've been separated from the adults, so that law enforcement could confirm that they were actually related and not a trafficker using a child to enter under false pretences, just to ditch the child in the desert or sell them.
This policy drastically reduced human trafficking, but was sadly reversed by Biden. Now trafficking has skyrocketed and more and more children are loosing their lives because of this. The saparation of children and adults has also been abandoned and cases of s*xual abuse have also increased. The solution here is obviously to reinstate the policy and vet the adults coming to the border with kids.
In conclusion, kids must be protected from those who want to harm and profit over them. From shooters, human traffickers, to Big Farma and gender clynics. Protect children, always.
