Prime Time Gender Issues (READ OP BEFORE POSTING)

Do you know what a Nazi is/was? Also are you aware of Goodwin’s law?

Answering a question with a question is very poor manners. Please don’t engage with me if you don’t display proper manners. Thanks.

So if I said I wanted to reduce rates of disability in Ireland, you'd think that meant I wanted to kill disabled people? Like the Nazis?

TBF that's pretty much the argument of anti choicers against allowing couple to terminate pregnancies of disabled fetuses - is that what you believe? That they want to murder the disabled?

It's more complex than that though: the majority of children with gender dysphoria at the beginning puberty have got over it by the end of puberty. In fact it's likely that a degree of gender dysphoria is commonplace during puberty, and is exacerbated by factors like autism, or being the victim of sexual abuse, or just living in a highly sexualised environment (which for many girls creates a sort of semi-constant low level sexual abuse by objectification).

The exception, those who don't get over it naturally, is when children are treated with puberty blockers. In that case the rates are reversed, and the vast majority don't get over their dysphoria, and progress to cross sex hormones and in many cases to surgery. Since it's experimental, and even those who set up the puberty-blocker treatment procedure admit that they can't really tell in advance who will continue to experience dysphoria and who won't, it's probable that the treatment itself increases the rates of patients wanting surgery later on.

It's not a neutral "time-stopper" as was promised. Which is why the numbers of children being offered surgery (or not) is not the only problem, since non surgical treatments during childhood increase the chances of going for surgery later.

Did kids have gender identity crises before social media and mass communication? I often wonder about this.

Except that Tavistock was replaced by other services, doing pretty much the same thing.

Is it? It's something Prime Time sort of implied by talking to people who looked young (but were still in their 20s from what I can tell) but never actually said this was the case. I ask because honestly I'd be very very surprised if surgical treatment was offered to minors. (And not something I'd be in favour of either despite being on the "pro-trans" side of the fence). As far as I'm aware, the treatment on offer if needed is puberty blockers. And they're generally offered because the alternative is a suicidal minor.

Can you point to any definition of affirmative care approach that refers to no questioning please? The definitions that I'm seeing are quite different from your claim.

https://cps.ca/en/documents/position/an-affirming-approach-to-caring-for-transgender-and-gender-diverse-youth

Concerns about slander from the person making up false allegations. Hilarious.

Where have you seen surgery being offered to teens and young people?

Is there any chance of grounding this discussion with even the slightest grasp on reality.