(August 17, 2015 at 11:52 pm)80sChild Wrote: No I wasn't trying to imply that at all, I was only wanting the child to be sure that is all. I am sure it has to be horrible living inside a foreign body. I am not against this nor am I against gays. I am for gay rights, I believe all people should be treated equally with out prejudice. Do not be so quick to judge some one just because of your experiences with other people who claim certain things. I am very open minded and only here to learn and enjoy other people's ideas.
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So then let's break it down.
What did you mean by "what if there [sic] wrong?" Had you read the article, you would know that this girl's doctors are not performing any reassignment. They are simply giving her some hormone therapy that will delay puberty, which will give her a better chance for a successful reassignment much later, and if she decides, at that point, to not go ahead with the reassignment, she will stop taking the drugs, go through puberty, and not have any effects on her ability to reproduce. She may be smaller in stature and developmentally 2-3 years behind her peers, but no long term detrimental effects will have taken place.
What did you mean by what if it's "just a faze [sic]?" If you had read the article, you would have known that this child has been expressing gender dysmorphia from a very young age, and more than half of her life she has been expressing that she should be a girl. That isn't a phase. In fact, this is the norm for transgender individuals.
What did you mean by "There is no going back after that!" Once again, had you read the article, you would know that what they are doing right now is completely reversible. She won't be ready for reassignment surgery according to normal timelines until she is 17. That will be 9 years of counseling, thinking about it, staring this life altering decision in the face. If you think it's still a whim at that point, then that's on you. If you think that every transgender individual ever isn't acutely aware of how permanent that procedure is, well, then, I don't know what to tell you.
My objection to your statement wasn't because I think you are against LGBT individuals or didn't support their rights. It was because you very obviously opined on this situation without taking the 4 minutes it would have taken to familiarize yourself with what we were talking about. You did a very typical theist move, which is to make statements that show how little you actually know, but are reacting to a headline rather than what actually is taking place.
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