>Giving hormones to tweens for the sake of a rounding error of the population
There are any number of medical disorders that affect only "a rounding error of the population". Medically-assisted transition with hormone treatment for gender dysphoria is the treatment option best supported by the evidence, although the quality of evidence is currently less than ideal.
If you have found peer-reviewed research indicating that hormone treatment for GD does more harm than good, I'd be eager to see it.
Your entire comment is a non-sequitur. Your first link is about a conference organised by radical feminists, none of whom appear to be clinical researchers; your second is about a tenured researcher being briefly blocked from Twitter for expressing opinions rather than stating facts and your third is an apparently completely unrelated lecture by Slavoj Žižek.
We have a whole bunch of observational studies on the effects of hormone treatment. There are a bunch more registered that we're waiting for results on. You haven't shown me any evidence suggesting that hormone treatment does more harm than good, nor any evidence that research is being suppressed.
> It’s also pretty insulting to throw the word tweens in there, implying that transgender issues are just a tween phase.
They didn't imply that at all, the problem is that we are performing life changing cosmetic surgery on people not mature enough to consent. The other issue is that it doesn't really treat the disorder, it transforms the body to match the mind, all other psychiatry tries to get the mind to adapt to it's environment, it's a failure of psychiatry.
They did imply it. They said the problem was transgender acceptance. That is not an age qualified statement. The following statement was specific to tweens, which implies the poster views it as a tween originating self image.
Regardless, this feels purposefully naive to me. Gender identity issues could well be biological or mental health related. There are plenty of things for which do cosmetic surgery or otherwise accept as untreatable including sexual orientation. We are comfortable doing liposuction en masse for people who are just fat.
Maybe there is an argument that on average young transgender people would be better off waiting a few years. That has nothing to do with the thesis of transgender acceptance being a problem. Nor does your opinion trump another individuals ability to offer their own consent. I will, without any evidence, confidently say that in either case, telling a young person that their feelings of gender dysphoria are irrelevant until they’re an adult is definitely the wrong way to do this. Lack of hormones != lack of transgender acceptance
This is a studied thing. Some do, but the vast majority do not regret sex change operations.
Also it’s highly unlikely that people would ask why. We aren’t forcing people to get transgender operations. If anything we are encouraging them not to. They’re the ones pushing for it. They know why it happened. Extreme liberal parents might exist who ok it at the drop of a hat but I’ll bet a dollar they’re the edge case.
Lastly most operations occur on adults. Your opinion seems to be that all transgender is bad, but you’re angling it on the subset that might be more grey
Sounds like you're conflating the scope and aim of your comments when it suits your point. Going from a snark at the general trans approach to a whatabout the neon cult and such. Hmm
Since you've ignored our requests not to start or feed flamewars on HN, and have a pattern of posting uncivil and unsubstantive comments, I've banned this account.
Would you please not create accounts to break the site guidelines with?
