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For the context of those unaware, Gender Affirming Care for minors is... mostly just calling them by their preferred name and pronouns. At its most intrusive it's puberty blockers which carries less risk for kids than aspirin.
the anti-trans activists who push the narrative that kids are being mutilated with gender-affirming surgeries are essentially lying, surgeries are not offered to kids at all. The closest to that is that a minority of 17 year old trans boys have been able to get top surgeries (breast reduction), but this is again a small minority, and these are people on the cusp of being the age of the majority.
Meanwhile cis children are permitted access to surgeries like breast reduction, breast augmentation, and nose jobs without the gatekeeping or moral panic associated with gender affirming care for trans patients.
The very same activists pushing to deny trans people access to life-saving care under the guise of protecting children from mutilation are also the same people who support non-consensual surgeries on intersex children and babies ...
You can't make this up folks, the anti-trans activist Matt Walsh who held a protest called "End Child Mutilation" to protest surgeries that don't happen also supports the unethical and non-consensual mutilation of intersex babies and children.
(Presumably he also supports circumcision, but people seem to feel that kind of gential mutilation is acceptable, and it's less relevant to the hypocrisy of supporting the mutilation of children to force them into one gender or another while making up stories of genital mutilation so he can deny people access to surgeries when they choose it for themselves.)
yeah, but trans kids are offending me in some way. I don't know how. Don't ask me too many questions! /s
they seem to come up with non-standard definitions and just live by those, e.g. Matt Walsh denies the existence of intersex people by claiming the only way to be intersex is to produce both kinds of gametes ... but that's not really the definition of intersex, so it's just weird that he uses it anyway (and of course for political purposes, he is essentially a science denier).
Well he's religious, so being a science denier is automatic.
Ahhh! Abuse! Abuse! How dare you! Respecting kids is the…. Oh wait….. hmmm.
Aspirin is quite unsafe for kids, so, not a great analogy. Reye’s syndrome is a problem for kids if they take aspirin.
Quite unsafe for kids, but quite a common medicine that absolutely gets given to kids.
Yes, so not a good analogy.
Kids die from aspirin use and doctors recommend against it. Unlike puberty blockers, which are super low risk for side effects, let alone death and are doctor recommended for trans kids and other kids with precocious puberty.