Can Having Genital Preferences for Dating Mean You’re Anti-Trans?

It's not like a child just says that they're trans and voila, hormones. That's not how that works.

Since I feel like making a post about this: WPATH SOC v7. I will be referencing text from this. WPATH is the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

Page 17: Of transgender identified children, only 6-20% of them were still identified as transgender growing up. Neat, supports her view, right?

In contrast, the persistence of gender dysphoria into adulthood appears to be much higher for adolescents. No formal prospective studies exist. However, in a follow-up study of 70 adolescents who were diagnosed with gender dysphoria and given puberty suppressing hormones, all continued with the actual sex reassignment, beginning with feminizing/masculinizing hormone therapy (de Vries, Steensma, Doreleijers, & Cohen-Kettenis, 2010).

Pulling from the current March for Science, back up your political opinions with science based facts. Evidence based facts. Do not shout unfounded assertions in regards to anything political because...well, you should know by now. Also taking from WPATH SOC:

formal epidemiologic studies on gender dysphoria – in children, adolescents, and adults – are lacking. Additional research is needed to refine estimates of its prevalence and persistence in different populations worldwide.

THIS needs to happen more than any argument for or against. Still though, of 70 adolescents who were diagnosed with gender dysphoria, 70 of them continued transition into adulthood? Seems like a solid 100%, or damn near.

FOR THE RECORD. Adolescence is defined as ages 12-18. Childhood is defined as 5-12. Source

Nobody is giving, or recommend giving, hormones to children.

She says that she is against children being put on hormones and/or getting reconstructive surgery because they have permanent effects that she things are weightier than a child is able to realize and arrive at a holistic decision that considers all the side-effects and future desires. I believe, with reason, that she objects to someone letting another someone decide its okay to undergo a therapy which will leave them sexually sterile before they've even discovered their post-pubescent sexuality.

WPATH SOC:

  1. Fully reversible interventions. These involve the use of GnRH analogues to suppress estrogen or testosterone production and consequently delay the physical changes of puberty. Alternative treatment options include progestins (most commonly medroxyprogesterone) or other medications (such as spironolactone) that decrease the effects of androgens secreted by the testicles of adolescents who are not receiving GnRH analogues. Continuous oral contraceptives (or depot medroxyprogesterone) may be used to suppress menses.
  2. Partially reversible interventions. These include hormone therapy to masculinize or feminize the body. Some hormone-induced changes may need reconstructive surgery to reverse the effect (e.g., gynaecomastia caused by estrogens), while other changes are not reversible (e.g., deepening of the voice caused by testosterone).
  3. Irreversible interventions. These are surgical procedures.

I don't care if she is trans. That doesn't absolve her from making baseless clickbait claims that influence so many people. They don't give sterilizing hormones to kids. That's not what happens.

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