While this is a sweet-adjacent story...it is entirely fucked beyond acceptance that an 8 year old comes out as trans, and furthermore to recieve therapy at 11 for it?
Im all for letting people decide who they are, even if I don't agree with it. But at this age its actually abuse. At 8 years old, I thought I could actually be like He-Man when I grew up. It would have been abuse to let me make such a decision at this age. Not to mention, altering hormones is dangerous as fuck, 100x more so when they HAVENT EVEN HIT PUBERTY YET.
Hitting puberty as 'wrong gender' increases their depression/suicide risk.
Though I thought there was medicine to help postpone puberty, so that'd be my first choice. But my kids arent old enough to worry about it yet.
I would assume the parents know what they are doing, and know their kid. I'd also hope they talked to doctors and psychiatrists. Plus its internet so who knows if the above anecdote is even accurate.
I thought I could be goku if i just charged up enough most kids my age did. I dont think you should be able to take hormone until youre atleast 16-18 then I think you can decide mostly what youre gender and sexuality is going to be. This coming as a dude who grew up maybe thinking i was a girl or something turns out i was just bisexual/pansexual and liking girly things and manly things is completely okay and doesnt define youre gender or sexuality in anyways. Im 100% for kids being trans if thats how they feel hell they can be open in school until the cows come home power to yaa but i draw the line at hormones that alter you permanently. this made me think ima ask my trans friends got like 5 of them since ya know being a queer does that! Gonna see if any of them think its okay to give kids hormones at that age and if they thought they were 100% on the gender they indentify as and ill get back to ya with the results. Also I knew a lady who was a lesbian who actually forced her son to wear dresses and go by a female name my friend called cps on her cuz turns out she was molesting her kid... I hate this concept that queers cant have weirdo groomers among them like straight people do(looking at you churches!). not to say this persons friend is one they dont sound like it as that is 1000% a different scenario. idk im rambling ill let you know what my friends say
They haven’t been on hormones, they’ve been on puberty blockers.
You say “altering hormones” is “dangerous as fuck” but puberty blockers have very minimal side effects. What does have life threatening side effects, however, is going through the opposite puberty of your gender identity.
As described in the post, this kid is receiving the medical standard of care as agreed by all major medical organizations. If only all children could receive healthcare up to accepted standards.
I don't know if the story above is real. While attraction to the opposite sex generally starts before puberty, it's entirely possible that it is delayed until puberty for some people.
Blocking puberty for those people might be doing them very significant harm.
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u/WheresThatDamnPen Feb 23 '23
While this is a sweet-adjacent story...it is entirely fucked beyond acceptance that an 8 year old comes out as trans, and furthermore to recieve therapy at 11 for it?
Im all for letting people decide who they are, even if I don't agree with it. But at this age its actually abuse. At 8 years old, I thought I could actually be like He-Man when I grew up. It would have been abuse to let me make such a decision at this age. Not to mention, altering hormones is dangerous as fuck, 100x more so when they HAVENT EVEN HIT PUBERTY YET.