Nutella wrote:
spockman wrote:
DarkSpeedWorks wrote:
Interesting article. Almost makes mincemeat of people with black and white positions on all of this. But maybe Mr Blakeman from Nassau Co. NY will swoop in and save the day.
Federal appeals court blocks West Virginia from enforcing anti-trans sports ban against 13-year-old girl https://www.cnn.com/...ports-ban/index.htmlThis person is a small group which unfortunately is getting bigger. Given that desisting is the commonest trajectory extending puberty blocking drugs if fraught with problems. The tendency in Canada at present is to not question any adolescent who thinks they are not cis gender and get on with puberty blocking drugs and or hormones. In many cases one is affirming thoughts that likely will go away and not giving the child the chance to identify with their biological sex. If one even questions this approach one is labelled "trans-phobic".
Sensible countries like Finland and Sweden are either banning puberty blocks or restricting to exceptional cases
Neither Finland nor Sweden have banned puberty blockers. Desisting is
not the most common trajectory for early adolescents who receive puberty blockers,
in fact it is the exact opposite. The vast majority continue with their transition. There are similar numbers, 94%, for early adolescents who socially transition. The most common reasons for desistance of these groups is social, family, or church pressure.
Perhaps you are confusing the stats for gender questioning youth? There are high desistance figures for young, gender questioning, children (4-8) but children of that age are not given puberty blockers or hormones and are not considered transgender.
Once you put them on puberty blockers you have changed the whole ball game. You have likely affirmed their choice to transition with a therapeutic intervention. You don't know if the would have desisted without the puberty blockers. Given a high majority desist if not put on puberty blockers we very well may not be helping and may well be harming.
Here in Ontario I am seeing kids being put on puberty blockers with minimal assessment and deficient mental health support otherwise. Our locals transgender kids clinic sent out a letter advising family doctors to just put kids on puberty blockers while they are awaiting assessment "because the wait times to get seen are very long."
I spent a small rotation in the transgender assessment unit 35 years ago in Toronto. The guy who ran it got slandered out the the job maybe ten years ago because he raised concerns about kids being transitioned etc. They had to pay him a settlement and he refused a non disclosure agreement. The dialogue about this in Toronto at least was and is pretty toxic.
Some boy at 12 who wants to run cross country with girls while on puberty blockers doesn't bother me much if at all.
They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot