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Originally Posted by gvitaly
I disagree, it isn't just healthcare.
Here's why I'm against it: - “Gender-affirming” healthcare is the only area of medicine where patients make their own diagnosis and prescribe their own remedy.
- What is diagnosed as gender dysphoria in minors often manifests as a fluid experience, with some patients eventually identifying with their birth sex as they mature.
- Hormone therapy and surgery entail substantial risks and irreversible consequences. Minors may struggle to comprehend the gravity of these ramifications.
- Physicians frighten parents with warnings of their child’s suicide while convincing parents that there are no long-term effects to puberty blockers and hormone treatments.
Gender-affirming healthcare should be available to adults. Ones that are fully capable of comprehending the gravity of their decision. |
There is a lot of misinformation in there.
What you primarily don't seem to understand is that getting a physician to approve any sort of gender affirming care is an extremely lengthy process. Even for adults. You don't experiment with gender (a social contract) and walk up to a pharmacy and get on hormones. While gender fluidity and experimentation is definitely very real, folks who medically transition generally aren't making medical decisions for themselves but more of a social fluidity.
No one, absolutely no one, is getting top or bottom surgery in Canada if they're a legal minor. That's why that portion of Smith's policy indicates that it's rooted misinformation and fear mongering. It doesn't happen. In large part because of some of your concerns and what I've outlined above.
Not to mention the waitlist for Top surgery in Alberta right now is about 3 years. Folks aren't walking into a clinic one day and getting surgical procedures.
Puberty blockers def can be reversed. If someone goes off them the changes occur. Which is why it's important for teens to have access to them, under medical supervision.
This government clearly has no faith in the professionalism and expertise of experts like Physicians and chooses to be willfully ignorant on the heaps of peer reviewed research in several areas, be it this one, curriculum development, harm reduction etc.