I personally don't have an issue if people want to be trans, I've known a few. They don't bother anybody. I don't really have an informed opinion on if kids should be allowed to transition, I think the big debacles of schools hiding pronoun changes from parents, or if it is necessary to alter a childs body chemistry to suit their preferences is this kind of ideology advancing too rapidly and society not being able to keep up. These things take time to develop and people are leaping all or nothing into it.
Not going to neg rate as this is indeed an unpopular opinion!
But I will argue that medically transitioning (especially children) comes with inherent and unavoidable physiological problems, it’s not a case of forcing an idea too soon on society but a clash with basic biology.
No matter how truly trans-friendly a society is, puberty blockers and cross sex hormones render a child sterile. That is a negative outcome, especially given that the vast majority of trans children, prior to the gender craze, simply grew out of it. Also we don’t know the full side effects of stunting a child’s puberty and giving them cross-sex hormones, but it’s likely to be very bad, including stunted IQ, bone density loss and long-term increased risks of some cancers.
Finally, we lack the ability to actually change sex. Again, this is not a problem with society, but an immutable biological fact: no matter how much society accepts trans people as “who they really are”, all we can do for them physically is help them to visually imitate the opposite sex, often not very realistically.
If (theoretically) it was the least worst option to medically transition true trans children, they would need to be informed honestly of the fact that sex change is utterly impossible, and all they would be getting would be cosmetic procedures, some (like SRS) with very poor success rates.
Aside from that, when I hear people say "protect trans youth" my preferred takeaway is that children should be protected from abuse. Maybe little Timmy wanting to wear a dress is a phase, maybe it isn't. He shouldn't be beaten over it. Don't lie to yourselves, there are reactionary parents out there that will abuse their kids if they show any sign of being on the spectrum, being gay, or questioning their gender. There's literally schools like Escuela Caribe set up outside of US legal jurisdiction in order to beat and abuse these traits out of teenagers, watch "Kidnapped for Christ" and you'll know what I mean when I say "protect trans youth".
This is true in some ways, that transphobic abuse does exist.
The flip side of this is that genuine transphobia is basically a subset of homophobia, and protecting gender non-conforming children from homophobic abuse should cover this.
Remember that some homophobic parents are so revolted by little Timmy liking dresses that they transition their child, because they would rather have a straight daughter than a gay son.
Children should be able to dress however they want, and play with whatever toys they want, without being abused, including manipulation to believe they are the opposite sex.
I think a larger problem with the trans community as a whole is the same one with the regular gay community. No one can agree what is and isn't acceptable. So you have regular people that want to transition, the same way people have wanted to do it for decades, mixing in with gooners that want to live out their sexual fantasies judgement free.
You watch Josh's podcast from a few years ago he sounds like a completely different person before he was exposed continously to the worst aspects of this community.
also Sillypoo sucks shhhhhh don't tell anyone!
Agree with this. If the trans community had listened to the truscum, and had never accepted autogynephiles or non binaries and other trend-hoppers, they would be in a much better position.
Gays had to excise the paedophiles from their community for acceptance, trannies should have cleaned house similarly.
Now, ordinary trans people who don’t bother anyone and just want to live their lives are swept up in the backlash.
Though the difference is, ordinary inoffensive people seem to be the plurality of LGBs, but are a minority of the Ts. I’m recalling that Iranian study showing an extremely high rate of narcissistic personality disorder among troons. Which makes sense, as they are vainly constructing a false self and attempting to make the whole world play along.
