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The court cases striking down these shitty laws really need to get moving. Restricting access to hormone therapy is blatantly unconstitutional, as the existing challenges that have made it through the courts have proved.
People born XXY (Klinefelter's Syndrome) can get testosterone for treatment, so to say someone who needs testosterone for similar gender affirming care cannot get it is plain discrimination on the basis of gender and sexual orientation.
But that syndrome is literally about a lack of testosterone production in males, so of course hormone treatment is justified.
There's an imbalance being fixed.
Gender affirmative care isn't medically necessary, you're not curing an imbalance. You're modifying your body to align with what you want it to be.
In my mind it's just like plastic surgery. You wouldn't let a kid get tons of plastic surgery because they don't like their body image. Why should we start pumping them full of hormones?
Because they kill themselves. That's why we give gender affirming care - because at best it just really can mess them up not to have it. And they were killing themselves. A lot.
So we came up with a protocol to do reversible puberty blockers for 4-6 years while they and their parents work with an endocrinologist and therapist to make sure this is the right call.
Only at 16 or 17 they then get the option for hormone therapy, and if they've been on puberty blockers then they either grow (or don't grow) boobs naturally.
And unless they think there's a high risk of suicide or self-mutilation otherwise (and there's a process and a panel that needs to approve this) they can't get bottom surgery until they're at least 18 - assuming they even want it
We also do allow elective plastic surgery with parental and doctor approval - breast reduction or implants for example - at the age they're eligible for hormone therapy.
Also, we give gender affirming plastic surgery to cis male teens and preteens who have manboobs, I think it can even be covered by insurance. It's not unnatural or necessary unless they have a high risk for breast cancer, it's purely because it makes them insecure
Should we start telling schizophrenics to listen to the voices in their head? I'm sure they'd feel a lot more comfortable in their skin.
The general populace agrees with me, even if they're not saying it out loud. Trans women have to seek out special dating apps, because no cis men actually want to have a relationship with them. If trans women were really women, and I mean if people really believed that. Why won't they date trans people?
LMAO, you think most people agree with you?
Most people don't actually care much either way because they don't know any trans people. They just parrot things that sound good without putting any thought into it
Let's put in a little thought.
Why would trans people have a dedicated dating app if no one was interested? It would just be one of the million other failed dating apps no one has ever heard of. Why do they have prominent categories on many porn sites? Why do they do so well on only fans?
They're less than 0.5% of the population... If they're that overrepresented then clearly, there's a demand
But I think we're getting into the source of this... Trans girls make your dick confused, and you're not secure enough in your sexuality to confront what that means