RE: Transgendered children
February 9, 2017 at 5:59 am
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2017 at 7:14 am by Violet.
Edit Reason: Forgot to say something, was very tired.
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(February 8, 2017 at 10:08 pm)paulpablo Wrote: That's a bit mixed up, in the sense that the stuff that goes through your head in puberty is because of the hormones, it's not without the hormones. A child going through puberty with hormone blockers would be the one without the hormones I imagine. Just judging by the fact they're called hormone blockers, not that I know much about them.
But I'd be skeptical about if their use is healthy even with a medical approval.
It's not just hormone blockers (which don't always get given to transmen (testosterone is magic) but always are given to transwomen (testosterone is black magic)), it's trickle levels of the alternative hormone that slowly ramp up and do their best to simulate the desired puberty.
But some people are very impatient. I'm one of those people... but then, I had tried to do things the right way before I was defacto locked out (not a high population, alaska). It's probably cost me hugely in terms of the size of my knockers... but at this point I couldn't go back to that level to 'properly' grow them afaik, and given some pains I've had lately: either they haven't given up on me yet, or I've got cancer
Regarding the hormone blockers that transwomen use: they're not wholly safe. That is... used as anything more than a stopgap measure can easily end in cancer, life-threatening skin conditions, liver failure, blood clots, etc. In the amounts of these pills required for the treatment of transsexual women comes an elevated risk level... while it is possible to jump from one hormone blocker to another if the person needs more time: it's absolutely the inferior approach to the surgery that has relatively few complications (baring utter laziness and a total lack of self care, and that's just nature's course in healing what it sees as an open wound), and it subjects the patient to the various side effects that come with the new drug.
Let me tell you, I can't wait to stop taking Spiro later this year entirely for its 'benign' side effects (nausea, insane thirst, pissing more often (i'm taking 400 mg of a diuretic every day ). They're just annoying enough that "I'd rather chop off my balls and die" As it were...
(February 9, 2017 at 5:41 am)Alex K Wrote: I get my right wing talking points exclusively from "trannies", it seems. Odd.
That's a shame, in that case you should really expand your horizons. You'll never know what you're missing (that hilarious podcast, you gotta).
I just think it's one of those interesting things. Like the people calling Milo Y a Nazi. Just... unusual, and a little bit interesting
(February 9, 2017 at 2:15 am)Mirek-Polska Wrote: I am a very religions person. I am an active member of the church in my community. I must say, I disagree when I hear the people of my congregation talking badly about Transgender people at all. I support them. I think that maybe if they are very young, that the ideas could be a phase. However, if parents are truly sure that their child needs a change, or if the person is old enough to think for themselves, I am all for it. I got to get out of Poland and move to a more progressive nation like Sweden or Germany
If you ever do, please don't go out at night alone. While we don't fully agree in every way, I'm still grateful for your support of us, and I appreciate your opinion
(February 8, 2017 at 9:59 pm)Orochi Wrote: Yup there has been some . Can't say them off the top of my head (was for a case 2 years ago ) .But as far as I know side effect are rare. And nothing I know of that isn't reversible when you stop taking them .Teenage brains are pretty resilient.
B-b-boooooooobs, Orochi. Gotta stop inside that first month, and hell: mine were definitely starting inside the first two weeks. They'll have little (or... not, quite as little) boobs for the rest of their life.
And if a female takes T? They're gonna feel some abject misery with themselves if they aren't actually a man in a woman's body. Kind of on level with what transwomen just get to feel by default. Really messes with the suicide rate imo.
(February 8, 2017 at 7:55 pm)The_Empress Wrote: I'm sorry; when did children start having their genitals removed as a result of their transgendered-ness?
Also, last I checked, parents weren't allowing their children to take hormones, but hormone blockers which basically just delay puberty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Money...vid_Reimer
Wikiofuncertaintrustworthiness Wrote:Money claimed that media response to the exposé was due to right-wing media bias and "the antifeminist movement". He claimed his detractors believed "masculinity and femininity are built into the genes so women should get back to the mattress and the kitchen".[21] However, intersex activists also criticized Money, stating that the unreported failure had led to the surgical reassignment of thousands of infants as a matter of policy.[22] Privately, Money was mortified by the case, colleagues said, and as a rule did not discuss it.[23] Money's own views also developed and changed over the years.[1][24]
Expose noted below:
https://web.archive.org/web/200008150956...hnjoan.htm
Rolling Stone Wrote:In 1967, an anonymous baby boy was turned into a girl by doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital. For 25 years, the case of John/Joan was called a medical triumph — proof that a child’s gender identity could be changed — and thousands of “sex reassignments” were performed based on this example
Thousands. Never mind the highly suspectable pedophilia of John Money, it's gross too, but it's beside the point.
http://www.isna.org/articles/ambivalent_medicine
Alice_Domurat_Dreger Wrote:Republished with kind permission from The Hastings Center Report May/Jun 1998, Volume 28, Issue 3 Pages 24-35.
Subject terms: “Medical ethics,” Surgery, Sexes, Reproductive system, Child development, Babies
Abstract
Ethical issues in the treatment of intersexuality are examined. It is not at all clear if all or even most of the intersex surgeries done today involve what would legally and ethically constitute informed consent.
Copyright © The Hastings Center May/Jun 1998
There's a reason I'm furious... it's precedent, and the ever-flirtation science has always had with going out of bounds. As for cases of sexual reassignment surgery apportioned for explicitly gender identity reasons, you're mostly right in that it's widely regarded as unethical (even insane) to perform on a minor (treatment of intersex sufferers is far less horrifying these days, and circumcisions themselves are a barbaric practice that falls ever out of favor (would it could be illegal for any but an adult independently deciding to.. I literally didn't understand or care when it was suggested to and then performed on me when I was 11 (12?), as I didn't associate with my penis much even prior to my self-recognition (not that there was a lot of foreskin... but I'd rather have had it for my future surgery than not, and people wonder why there's so much rage inbuilt in me )))... there are rules in place that are not child's play to bend to perform it on children (of course, the child could always force their hand and mandate it by genital mutilation, but then it'd mess with the integrity of the desired genitals (very annoying, why I never did it))... however, some cases do still happen:
http://archive.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2010/01/12/spanish_teen_undergoes_sex_change/
Bostonnews Wrote:MADRID—A 16-year-old Spaniard has had a sex change operation, becoming the country's first minor to undergo a procedure that few countries in the world allow for people so young, a doctor said Tuesday.
The two-and-a-half hour surgery was performed in Barcelona three weeks ago and the patient is doing fine, reconstructive surgeon Ivan Manero, who did the surgery, told a news conference in Spain's second largest city.
Manero said the patient had been undergoing hormonal and psychiatric treatment for two years, after deciding he wanted to undergo surgery to have the body of a woman. The boy "said he felt like a woman from the age of four or five," Manero said. The patient's name has not been disclosed.
The surgery was authorized by a judge, as required by Spanish law for minors seeking such an operation.
It takes a legal case brought forward in addition to all the other >necessary< hassles.
As an aside not related to the genetalia dealie much: but damn... we're down to 4 now... O__o
https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/a/32501729...ent/#page1
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