Puberty blockers stop sexual development, which after enough time won’t resume when blockers are stopped. When adults make the decision to transition, doctors have full packages to work with. But when sexual development is stopped before puberty, that’s not the case and the ability to have sexual activity leading to orgasm is likely to be gone or extremely diminished. That’s an inconvenient truth at odds with woke gender theory and the lucrative business of transing the kids.
This has become a human rights crisis.
— Buffy the Trans Empire Slayer (@TransMpireSlayr) December 9, 2022
Sweeping legal action needs to be taken immediately to stop the transing of children.
This should never happen to another child, ever again. pic.twitter.com/dLXDyu9YlZ
And this:
1/ It’s quite irresponsible for the NYT to claim that youth gender medicine treatments “have been shown to reduce suicide risk.” In late 2022 there’s just no excuse for this sort of misinformation anymore. I’m at a loss here. These studies have been *so* thoroughly critiqued. pic.twitter.com/RQ6L2wDnzT
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) December 10, 2022
Common-sense comments below are sure to make the LGBTQ+ woke kool-aid drinkers apoplectic. Heresy of the highest order against the new progressive faith that must never be challenged!
If people giving gender-affirming care actually CARED, they’d help us accept ourselves for who we are, not inject us with drugs and chop off body parts.
— KC Miller (@KCMiller1225) December 13, 2022
How is a “gender affirming” double mastectomy considered life-saving or medically necessary?
How did we get here?
Gender dysphoria remains the only mental health condition I’m aware of, in which the proposed treatment is to affirm the distressing thoughts inside one’s head and physically modify one’s body.
— James Esses (@JamesEsses) July 28, 2022
We don’t treat anorexia with liposuction.
We must safeguard children from harm.
7 Comments for “Blocking Sexual Development In Gender-Nonconforming Kids”
posted by Edward TJ Brown on
Again, what to do with transsexuals and hermathidites when they are young?
posted by agee on
As Edward TJ Brown keeps repeating his comment, I’ll repeat my prior response:
It’s extremely clear from multiple studies (remember, follow the science?), that minors with gender dysphoria are extremely likely to become comfortable with their biological sex (and, typically, their homosexuality) post-adolescence and by their early 20s. Putting minors on puberty blockers (not easily reversible, with life-long consequences for sexual development and which almost inevitably begins the road to surgery), is the woke version of conversion therapy, but because it has the approval of the left, all the progressives fall in line to champion it.
The small percentage of people who, as adults, want to gender-transition (many of whom did not display gender-nonconforming behavior as children!) can do so as adults. It is a far greater crime to facilitate this among minors who are likely to otherwise be happy and healthy gay men and lesbian women than it is to delay the procedure for the small minority of actual adult transsexuals.
posted by Edward TJ Brown on
Hmmm. You still didnt answer my question.
posted by agee on
I did answer your question. As the vast majority of gender nonconforming kids will post-puberty become comfortable in their bodies, blockers and surgery should be delayed until adulthood. That is the solution that does the most good for the most people.
posted by Tom Scharbach on
“It’s extremely clear from multiple studies (remember, follow the science?), that minors with gender dysphoria are extremely likely to become comfortable with their biological sex (and, typically, their homosexuality) post-adolescence and by their early 20s. Putting minors on puberty blockers (not easily reversible, with life-long consequences for sexual development and which almost inevitably begins the road to surgery), is the woke version of conversion therapy, but because it has the approval of the left, all the progressives fall in line to champion it.”
“The small percentage of people who, as adults, want to gender-transition (many of whom did not display gender-nonconforming behavior as children!) can do so as adults. It is a far greater crime to facilitate this among minors who are likely to otherwise be happy and healthy gay men and lesbian women than it is to delay the procedure for the small minority of actual adult transsexuals.”
A fair reading of the questions that Edward has asking is that Edward is asking for facts and data to back up the undocumented claims you and Stephen (e.g. “Effeminacy Warrants Castration?”, “Stand Up to Insanity Destroying Gay Kids and You’re a ‘Hater’”, “Castrate and Sterilize Pre-Adolescent Gay Kids or You’re Not Woke”, “Castration Cult”) have been making on IGF for the last two years.
What I’ve seen is a lot of polemic, but nothing much in the way of facts or data.
So why don’t you start by answering a simple question: “How many boys under the age of 18 are castrated in the United States each year?”
posted by agee on
Tom the sophist strikes again. The answer is not easily available, but any castrations of minor boys who are gender nonconforming is too many. If an anti-gay regime were doing this, maybe you could see that.
posted by Tom Scharbach on
“Tom the sophist strikes again.”
I ask for a fact. You don’t have facts, so you label the question sophistry (the use of fallacious arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving). Typical.
“The answer is not easily available …”
The number of castrations among children is very small, but probably larger than you think. The procedure is indicated in (a) cases of undescended testicles when the testicles are poorly developed, abnormal or dead tissue, (b) in some cases of testicular injury, and (c) in cases of testicular cancer or pre-cancerous conditions.
“… but any castrations of minor boys who are gender nonconforming is too many. If an anti-gay regime were doing this, maybe you could see that.”
Okay, so let me narrow the question: “How many boys under the age of 18 are castrated in the United States each year for the purpose of correcting gender nonconformity?”
As far as I am aware, none of the medical associations in the United States recommend surgical castration of minors for the purpose of treating gender dysphoria, so it is not likely that reputable doctors would perform the procedure.
The American College of Pediatricians, a social conservative advocacy group, doesn’t mention castration of minors as an issue. If castration of minors was an issue, you can bet that the article, which opposes treatment of gender dysphoria in children in almost all forms, would at least mention it.
I can’t find a single case of a reported castration of a minor for the treatment of gender dysphora in the United States. Can you?