Society should not allow capital D-Deaf couples to make their children deaf, or to isolate them from hearing people. Troon want the equivalent to happen with children, theirs or other people's.
Exactly. There are social changes that a group of people, even a group of people that experience some sort of systemic disadvantage, will want that are not reasonable. 'Messing with kids' is pretty high on the list. Now, I think that there are probably children that have actual gender dysphoria (though these kids have a high likelihood of having been abused in some way, though anyone conducting a study that continues to verify this is limited to saying 'trans kids are especially molestable' and never even touching the idea that there may be a causal relationship going the other way) who could benefit from getting some sort of medical care before and during puberty - but 80% of kids who have some sort of gender identity issues will simply grow out of them by adulthood.
And this is kinda borne out when you look at how the numbers of trans-identified children have risen over the last ten years - it's increased from ~0.7% to ~3.5%. Or pretty much exactly the numbers you'd expect if those 4/5 kids for whom it truly is 'just a phase' were instead encouraged to embrace their issues.
Funny enough transgenderism is also one thing one the individual doesn't need medical care but (According to TRAs) people just need to affirm and respect a trans person's gender and that's the "civil rights" that they claim to want.
Well...not quite. They want the affirmation, they want people to tell them that they totally are the thing that they like to think that they are. Unsurprisingly they have studies to show that this has a positive effect on the quality of life of trans people (which, duh - when people tell you that you
are the thing that you desperately want to be it feels good, when they tell you that you aren't it feels bad).
But they absolutely want the medical treatments, and it's part of the contradictions that the TRAs are advocating for. They absolutely need the hormones and drugs and surgeries because those are all
powerful, life-saving medicine for a serious condition - and yet they
also want to reduce medical 'gatekeeping'. It's simultaneously serious medical treatment for a serious issue, but it should also be available without barriers.
Meanwhile, there aren't any other treatments that fall under this category. Anything that's 'major' and 'lifesaving' is going to have a lot of hoops and consultations and assessments to jump though because they make serious changes to the body, and have serious side effects. No one says that we need to remove 'gatekeeping' from getting chemotherapy, or joint replacement. Those are obviously major treatments and are treated as such with multiple visits to specialists to best determine the course of action.
There's just a lot of elements to what trans advocates have been pushing for that are either contradictory or special pleading.
A friendly reminder that PLing *doesn't* mean not sharing personal anecdotes - it's sharing personal anecdotes that make you look like a fool. If it's relevant to the topic at hand, go ahead and post if it's not retarded. Sorry for the backseat modding.
Power Leveling doesn't have anything to do with how your story makes you look, it's about keeping personally identifying details out of your posts. If a story has enough distinctive elements that someone could read it and recognize who might be writing it, that's a power level.
