specialsnowflakesanonymous:

boyonetta:

cutiepiedork:

taykyles:

cutiepiedork:

Please remember that when you’re saying kids shouldn’t be allowed to take hormone blockers, and people should only be allowed to transition at 18 here are some things that means

• you don’t want to prevent suicide in trans teens
• you want trans teens to be miserable until they turn 18
• you want trans teens to grow up to need surgery to reverse the effects of first puberty
• you want trans teens to grow up and have irreversible effects from puberty that could very well cause dysphoria for the rest of their lives

“B-but that’s not what I mean I just think they’re not mentally equipped to make that decision!”
yeah well too fucking bad, that’s what not giving them hormone blockers does.  Kids don’t magically wait until they’ve hit your idea of mental capability to have serious medical conditions, sorry.

Then let’s lower the age of consent to that age

I’m under the firm belief that if they can make these kinds of decisions, they have the maturity to have sex

At 18, they’re a legal adult. No one can tell them what they can and can’t do with themselves. The only way underage transitioning could work is to lower the legal adult age

You WILL get pedophiles advocating for lower adult age if underage transitioning becomes law and, while I by no means advocate pedophilia, they WILL have an actual case that we have no case against

Imagine writing this. Imagine being this fucking dismissive of the fact that kids are real human beings with real human feelings and real human medical disorders. Also why are homophobes and transphobes so obsessed with pedophilia like y’all have some issues to work out if ur first thought when someone brings lgbt children up is diddling kids.

I was diagnosed with several mental illnesses and a genetic liver disease when I was fourteen-fifteen.

Guess what, I sought treatment. I needed that treatment to live. I needed it to balance out the chemicals in my brain and make my liver function at least halfway normally. If I did not have these treatments, I would be dead.

You don’t need to “lower the age of consent” for children to be allowed to seek treatment for their medical conditions. If they are professionally diagnosed, they should be allowed to seek treatment for their diagnoses–and they usually are, with parental consent.

Especially where transgenderism is involved, there are strict criteria for diagnoses, and diagnosing a person as transgender does not happen overnight. Doctors don’t hand out trans diagnoses like candy, that’s a surefire way to get sued. They are very thorough when diagnosing trans folk, especially trans youth.

Transgenderism is a medical condition, and those professionally diagnosed with it should be allowed to seek treatment. Period. End of discussion.

I disagree with all of this

Kids have no business having medical intervention done on their body when it comes to transition. It’s not the whiney shit OP is going on about, trying to make you feel guilty and ironically sounding extremely childish and immature with their points, it’s the fact the it’s a long process that has irreversible effects and oh so many variables. I don’t think a, say, 14 year old has the capacity to make the decision to make themselves infertile or how they want to handle reproduction if anything at all. If they should have all kinds of surgeries in the future and which ones, if they want to live a life of constant doctor visits and a dependancy on medication. A life with potential side effects that put them at higher risk for shit like cancer or liver damage, where they’ll have to possibly have shit removed as a preventative measure later. A life where health insurance is of the utmost importance (think of everyone freaking the fuck out about trump taking their rights/fucking with their healthcare for example), how they’ll need to revolve their lives and where they can live around it, stigma from others and paranoia about who’s gonna do what to them and where because there are some transphobic groups out there that will try to fucking kill them if they find out. And should they find out? Will they be open, will they be stealth, having to navigate the dating scene, having to come out over and over cause that’s just how it is, if there’s any religious backlash they may get from loved ones or peers, how their family may respond and if it’s badly if they have a back up plan (or do you want homeless trans teens who have no options because they’re fucking 14 and jobless and mommy told them to fuck off? Like, now what?) Holy shit there is so much more to it than just getting a doctor to write off on it! You think a 14 year old really can think all this shit thro on top of the other shit in their life thoroughly? Shit, ADULTS struggle with this still, let alone a kid.

How insulting is OP to say that someone who actually understands how heavy this is doesn’t care about trans teens, wants them to suffer, doesn’t care about suicide. The post-op suicide rate is still 4x the general average anyway, regardless of age, so maybe it’s not so fucking crazy to say someone should hold off until they are closer to 18 to make such a life changing decision. Not that turning 18 will suddenly change your thought process, but you’re foolish if you think 14 year olds and 18 year olds are at the same level of mental maturity and brain development. At least you’re not in your teen angst “I know everything about everything” phase in life. Compound that with transitioning, and how vicious kids are at that age, and how you kind of have to be around those people everyday and how to navigate that, trying to plan out what you may wanna do in the future, what schools may suit you, what jobs you’d like, all that jazz. There’s just so much going on in your early teens! Most can’t even figure out their fashion.

It just sounds like OP wants to be able to do whatever they want and can’t possibly understand why getting a sex change when you’re still growing changing and developing might be a risky thing to do. Not to mention how much of a blow it can be on your finances, or is your part time job at burger King gonna take care of it all? Mommy gonna take care of it? You probably want it to be free for everyone.

ALSO, no, it’s really not that hard to get a doctor to get you on HRT. It’s actually pretty straight forward. I know the myth is that you have to jump thro hoops and sell your soul to papa psych for it, but you basically just have to show up to your appointments and follow what they say. And If doctor one says no, you act like it would be so hard to get a different doctor to back you. Recently shit has actually gotten more relaxed about it in certain states, when I was getting my letter for top surgery my therapist said they had actually just loosened their policy so it’s more accessible.

Dealing with a genetic liver disease and mental illness does not compare to getting a sex change. It just doesn’t.

Instead, let the kid cross dress and get them therapy so they don’t go and off themselves while they wait. It’s probably better than letting them jump right into transition at the age where arguably everyone is the most “lost” trying to figure themselves and the world out. That’s overwhelming enough already.

Trans ADULTS kill themselves all the time so why should I believe that some kid is gonna handle it better? It may work for some and then for others it could be catastrophic. Instead of looking at it so fucking stupidly “you don’t care about trans teens” why not stop the dramatics and think logically. Dysphoria is gonna be there either damn way, kind of part of the deal, but if it’s either “let me do it now or I’ll kill myself” then it sounds like you’re giving up on yourself anyway and it has less to do with when transition happens and more to do with your inability to cope with life which, ironically, just shows that you don’t actually have the capacity to make the kind of decisions you’re trying to insist on right now. Can’t get what you want right now so it’s time to end it? Is that really the thought process of someone mature enough to start this kind of journey? Cause shit is rough, it’s got its ups and downs but if you’re already gonna throw in the towel don’t think getting people to give into you is suddenly gonna make that all go away. It’s a mental thing as well as physical, you need to be strong in both and, sorry, older people usually have a better handle on their emotions and know better how to cope with shit. That’s just how it is. It’s part of growing up for most.

Not to mention the amount of confused children out here these days who think they’re trans because they wear skirts on Thursdays and khakis on Fridays. There’s so much misinformation going on right now it’s actually dangerous to give the green light to young teens, in my opinion. But that’s neither here nor there.

Anyway, fuck you OP for your immature and goddamn stupid ass post that equates to “anyone who doesn’t agree with me wants teens to suffer and die!” Like shut the hell up you sound 14 and entitled. Sometimes life doesn’t give you exactly what you what when you want it and for you to back that guilt trip instead of telling kids to stay strong while they get their ducks in line, I just find that infuriating and bratty. Like a kid throwing a fit because “but I want it NOWWWWW” then acting out so people will give in. That’s not how you cope.

Seeking treatment doesn’t automatically mean medical intervention. Try therapy.

P.s. Idk what the actual fuck the person going on about pedophiles is trying to acomplish.