At 18 you don't understand shit. You might be an adult or almost an adult in the eyes of the law but your life experience and understanding of what it means to be an adult, or think that far into the future with mature reason and reflection, is still utter garbage. Your brain isn't fully formed and you're still high on reckless youth.
Teen girls don't get breast surgeries more frequently because if they don't have a troon label slapped on them. Doctors will actively question their decisions and in may cases flatly refuse. See all the women who can't get sterilized, don't have their pcos taken seriously, can't get breast reductions, etc. The bodies of healthy women are medically policed but she walked in with a trans label and suddenly medical safeguarding is thrown out the window in pursuit of authentic self in what is no doubt a mentally unwell woman.
Agree to all of this. The childfree groups twenty years ago were filled with women in their twenties and
thirties who couldn't get their tubes tied, the reason was always "you
might regret it".
Many of these women were victims of child abuse or had genetic issues they didn’t want to pass on. Others had known from childhood they didn't want to be a mother. Others, it probably was a passing fad. People are complicated.
Or if they could find a doctor, they often had
to get their husband's permission. Some women were told no because they were unmarried and their future husband might want a child, even when they told the doctor that was a deal breaker for them, they were denied.
The older women in the community, the ones in their 40s or late 30s who did get their tubes tied said they never regretted it, or if they did it was a temporary regret that went away (usually because someone they know had a baby). Obviously there's a self-selection bias there, because unhappy women aren't going to join a childfree group, but I'm curious what the actual regret stats for tubals are, broken down by number of children. Do women who have no children when they get sterilized actually go on to regret it enough to justify denying it?
They made lists of doctors who would do these operations on childless women, what ages they were done at, and so forth.
I only hung out in the community for a year or so because the level of toxicity and hatred was too much, but this was a
frequent topic, as evedenced by my remembering this much detail twenty years later.
I'm curious now if the childfree groups now tell women to claim to be trans, because all that safeguarding done "for the good of the woman" seems to get thrown out the window. If they do I imagine it's done in private, as I'm sure the communities are now infested with TIFs (TIMs all seem to have a pregnancy fetish) who would REEEEEEEEEEEE about lying about a ~srs medkil condtin~.
