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Anna McGahan's avatar

Thank you, so much. My masc presenting AFAB child asks me often whether they ‘have to get boobies’, ‘I only want nipples’ and ‘can I stop it from happening? Can you promise me?’. They are already anxious about the prospect of dysphoria. I used to be able to say to them that when the time comes, they will have a choice. Reversing puberty via surgery later on, to affirm gender and save a life, is far more irreversible and involved than medically slowing a process our trans kids are dreading, a process we all know will impact their mental health so drastically if they are trans. I don’t want to speak to my child about cutting off body parts they loathe when they one day have the agency and money. I want to speak to my child about how I support their choice in defining their beautiful identity, and how I will offer them their rights as a human being to be exactly who they are.

Devastated is an understatement.

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Lucee Rose's avatar

"Very little desire for preventing the bodily changes".

I'm thoroughly convinced the conservative argumentation on this front exists only to ensure that those bodily changes associated with puberty take place. Fragile masculinity is deathly afraid of trans people that are indistinguishable from cis.

They want trans people to be easily identifiable by sight and at face value. To know who to discriminate against, to know who to target. To know who to pull a gun on, to know who to beat down in the street.

Forcing natural puberty on a trans person is not an unintentional cruelty. It's an act of calculated violence.

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