Are you for or against laws that forbid drugs and/or surgery for gender dysphoric children?
IMO, such laws simply prevent quack treatment, much as laws that require proof that a drug is both safe and effective before it can be legally marketed.
I honestly think it was the start of a very slippery slope when the first surgeon performed a "sex change operation" on an adult male. Even AGP is a psychological problem and shouldn't have been viewed as "fixable" with surgeries. People know it's wrong to let body dysmorphia sufferers have their limbs cut off, so why is it ever okay to cut off a person's sex organs? But SRS has been allowed for years because adults have been allowed to choose it and you can't say no to an adult. Now the same illogical and drastic surgeries have come after the children and no one can figure how to stop them.
I completely agree, except: we DO know how to stop them. Pass laws against the mutilation of children. Elect representatives will who vote for those laws.
Independent of the moral question, there are real questions regarding effectiveness and safety. These are invasive procedures with implications on lifespan that we still don't understand fully. Even if there 100% agreement on the ethical chose of allowing such procedures on the merits, there still should be more discussion on the health tradeoffs.
Yes, he has me wrong.
Are you for or against laws that forbid drugs and/or surgery for gender dysphoric children?
IMO, such laws simply prevent quack treatment, much as laws that require proof that a drug is both safe and effective before it can be legally marketed.
I honestly think it was the start of a very slippery slope when the first surgeon performed a "sex change operation" on an adult male. Even AGP is a psychological problem and shouldn't have been viewed as "fixable" with surgeries. People know it's wrong to let body dysmorphia sufferers have their limbs cut off, so why is it ever okay to cut off a person's sex organs? But SRS has been allowed for years because adults have been allowed to choose it and you can't say no to an adult. Now the same illogical and drastic surgeries have come after the children and no one can figure how to stop them.
I completely agree, except: we DO know how to stop them. Pass laws against the mutilation of children. Elect representatives will who vote for those laws.
Independent of the moral question, there are real questions regarding effectiveness and safety. These are invasive procedures with implications on lifespan that we still don't understand fully. Even if there 100% agreement on the ethical chose of allowing such procedures on the merits, there still should be more discussion on the health tradeoffs.