So then you know then that one of the long term impacts of medical transition, puberty blockers and cross sex hormones, includes sterility. One of the long term effects of puberty blockers alone (Lupron) is increased risk of osteoporosis and lung pain in women at young ages - younger than 30 years old (I focus on women because the drug was being used for precocious puberty in girls before it was turned into a puberty blocker off label).
And we’re talking about kids because a teenager is a kid, not an adult. You are still a child until you hit 18. The quote you put on your original post is about teenagers, under 18s.
And here are some stats about kids and medical transition in the US:
Between 2017 and 2021, at least 4780 children between the ages of 6-17 were started on puberty blockers and paid for it using health insurance.
Between 2017 and 2021, 14,726 children between the ages of 6-17 started taking cross sex hormones and paid for it using health insurance.
And between 2017 and 2021, there were at least 776 “gender affirming” surgeries done on children between the ages of 13-17 and paid for by insurance, with double mastectomies being the most common.
The number of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2017 was 15,172 a year. By 2021, the number of children diagnosed with gender dysphoria skyrocketed to over 42,000 - almost triple the diagnoses in 5 years.
All of these numbers are based just on insurance payments for treatment, and may be a severe under count because they don’t include cash payments for treatments.
“You need to be 14 to use tumblr” and you need to be 13 to use TikTok as yet I see children as old as 5 or 6 scrolling TikTok videos, sometimes making them. Super weird, huh? I see elementary school children on Facebook. My young cousins were on discord and Reddit in middle school. Weird, isn’t it, how sometimes kids lie when they’re on the internet?
If gender is a social construct, then why do any of these children need double mastectomies before the age of 18. If gender is a social construct, then why are young girls rushing to get puberty blockers so they don’t grow breasts, and why are we allowing it even though we know the long term consequences of this drug are severe?! I would argue that they don’t, that those are decisions that need to wait until 18. And I would argue that we as adults need to do more work on dismantling the sexist society that preys especially on young girls, and makes them uncomfortable with their growing bodies.
Children are making medical decisions that will alter their bodies for the rest of their lives based off of how much they like the gender roles assigned to them at 10 and 12 years old. Their parents are allowing it because they’re being told if they don’t, their kid will kill themselves. Meanwhile, go try to find a therapist for your kid that’s not a “gender affirming” therapist, because almost everything else has been labeled conversion therapy.
When feminists talk about this, we called terfs and bigots. And when you make a joke about this, it’s called ‘winning the internet’.
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