No,you don’t care about the negative effects of puberty blocker
I have talked about how anti-Queer bigots, especially anti-trans ones, virtue signal about child sexual predatoriness. When queer people — especially trans ones — enter the discourse, they suddenly care about protecting children from predators.
They never care when the abusers were the clergymen, teachers and even their own parents. If they truly TRULY care about this cause, they would have raised hell since the very beginning, with or without queer people in mind.
(Not to mention some of those bigots also practice purity culture. While it is not on the same level as sexual abuse, I don’t see how any sane minds can believe it is sexually appropriate)
And I have definitely encountered people who raises concerns about puberty blockers for trans-identifying kids.
I am not going to argue about the risks and I certainly don’t deny some people do regret their transitions, especially when they occurred before the legal age of adulthood. But, at the same time, I also cannot take the concerns seriously.
There are many things which humans have regretted doings.
Some people choose to get degrees in certain disciplines purely out of parental or societal pressures.
Some people grew up in religiously oppressive environments.
Some soldiers end up physically disabled and suffering from PTSD and being angry at themselves for participating in wars which benefit no one except the elites.
Many medical personnel end up overworked and underpaid and they also have risks of suffering violence, catching the highly-infectious diseases and yes, also PTSD.
Not to mention physical, emotional and sexual abuses are not uncommon in schools and workplaces.
Admittedly, I don’t have a data about the regret rates. But, to say some people regret going to universities, enlisting to the armed forces and joining the medical field is a very reasonable assumption.
Oh and I almost forgot about plastic surgeries. In the UK in 2023, more than 60% of people who took them regretted it.
Meanwhile, in the US in 2022, the detransition rates are low. The rates are 11% and 4% for trans women and trans men respectively; even then, parental pressures and societal discriminations are cited as among the main reasons to detransition.
While I don’t have the data about people who transition as minors, it is very apparent that most trans-identifying people don’t regret being ones, even among those who detransition.
And considering trans people are the minorities in every country, the people who regret the transitions make up extremely small minorities of the entire populations.
Once again, I am not going to pretend gender transition procedures — especially on minors — are risk and regret-free and I certainly refuse to underplay the transition regret.
But, when you try to frame it as the most globally and historically consequential regret, when you try to frame it as a pandemic, then it is clear your concern is insincere.
It is clear you are simply spewing anti-trans bigotry under the guise of protecting the youths against life-long regrets.
If your concern is sincere, you wouldn’t exaggerate the numbers and you certainly wouldn’t exaggerate the immensity.
You would have described it as it is.
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