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It should be noted I think that the elbow surgeries are actually asked for by the kids themselves. These kids have dreams of the major leagues but their bodies can't keep up. It's sad and related to the extreme pressures professional sports recruiting, related to the money in that. But it's not an arbitrary thing, it's the equivalent of paying for coaches for Olympic level swimmers young. For these kids to have a chance and entering professional sports, they have to start really young these days, everything is so optimized that you can't start later, so the surgerys being done are in a certain sense unnecessary because a small amount of damage to the UCL isn't crippling right away, but if there's any desire to keep going in sports, they'll have to do it at some point.I swear to god there's a similar post to this going around. I've seen it twice but didn't think to screenshot it, and now I can't find it anymore.
It was a post about how people against children taking hormones/getting surgeries don't actually care about their health, and that they're just trying to exert more control over children's bodies. They said that parents already surgically alter children's bodies without care for the child's wellbeing or consent, and the two examples they give are the same Tommy John arm surgery mentioned here, and circumcision.
This is about the achievement in sports, which I realize not everyone cares about, but it's a real tangible thing and a believable goal that these kids have, it's not a nebulous journey to nowhere for the sake of narcissistic navel gazing.
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