[theossuary]

It should be a matter of right. My parents mutilated me as a child because they denied me healthcare. We should not allow parents to deny their children healthcare which leads to their permanent disfiguration. That's disgusting.

If you think it'd be wrong to force a cis kid to be trans, then it's also wrong to force a trans kid to be cis.

[mustache_kimono]

> It should be a matter of right.

I think that's a fine point to make, but I also think it's unlikely to be politically feasible, any time soon, in the US. You may have been perfectly capable of making this decision, but, in the most common case, most parents know that teenage brains driving almost adult bodies sometimes make really terrible decisions. And lots of us imagine we were much smarter than we actually were in adolescence. Moreover -- parents can be just as profoundly stupid.

I'd imagine a teenage Melanie Griffith would say she was perfectly capable of consenting to the very adult relationship she had with Don Johnson, and to which, I believe, her parents consented, as well. In retrospect, I'm not sure adult Melanie Griffith would feel the same. Or at the very least she may not allow her daughter to do the same.

Perhaps that's why we should willing to accept some guidance from things that at least can pretend to be objective -- science and journalism. Especially views critical of our priors and intuitions. And we definitely shouldn't seek to silence or de-platform anyone simply because they disagree.

Please -- vote the bastards out of office who don't take your problems seriously, but also please don't silence journalists for suggesting that there is more to this question than two simple American Left and Right narratives. Some of us need that kind of help to understand the world.

[DaSHacka]

> We should not allow parents to deny their children healthcare which leads to their permanent disfiguration. That's disgusting.

So instead we need to enable parents to allow healthcare to disfigure their young kids when they predictably get influenced from social media and their peers?

How is it 'disgusting' to try to let someone live as they were born?

[TheDong]

It's a medical matter. If medical officials broadly agree that having a prosthetic limb gives someone better quality of life than having no limb, then yes, we should disfigure the human body by attaching a prosthetic.

Medical officials fairly broadly agree that gender-affirming care improves the quality of life of patients, and so of course it should be allowed.

It's disgusting to try and use the law to force medical professionals to give sub-par care for no good reason.

> How is it 'disgusting' to try to let someone live as they were born?

I assume you're opposed to cosmetic dental braces for children? Even though just like gender-affirming care, they can lead to better self-perception and better outcomes (but 'disfigure' the child by making their teeth more aligned with stereotypical norms)

[TimorousBestie]

> How is it 'disgusting' to try to let someone live as they were born?

Welcome to the cleft palate surgical repair denialism club!

[bobsmooth]

I read a study that said a majority of trans kids grow up to be gay if they don't take puberty blockers. I think it's wrong to force a gay kid to be trans.