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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
I consider myself a fairly liberal, to each their own kind of guy.
But I might have to side with Kipper_3434 on this.
Does a 16/17 year old really know their gender and/or sexuality at such a young age?
Clearly, Kipper_3434 was questioning, confused, or unsure of theirs at that age, and wouldn't have wanted a major realization to cement and bind them for the rest of their life only to have it change once they became an adult.
GGG, PepsiFree, or afc_wimbleton did you know your gender and/or sensuality at 17?
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I actually don’t understand the concept of Gender or how one feels their Gender doesn’t fit them or the correlary that they feel that their gender does fit them. I am male but really that’s no different than I have brown hair or I am tall.
However my lack of understanding doesn’t change that those affected by gender dysmorphia have very poor health outcomes and providing treatments that improve outcomes is likely a good practice.
If I had to choose whether the state or the parents of the child get to make life altering decisions with the child I would choose the parents. I think this is a lot like 3rd trimester abortions. If they happened regularly they would be horrific but when you actually look into it it’s fairly rare and done with proper oversight and for good reason. So you can argue the boogeyman of lefty parents pushing their kids into surgeries they don’t want or you can trust parents are consulting with experts and making the best choices they can for high risk youth.
Doing nothing also binds a decision and the outcome could be death.
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