So in summary I am fascinated on the next 10 to 20 years as we are seeing a genuine paradigm shift on how educators and even the government can be involved as compared to the parent. This power struggle will be interesting to see where the pendulum ends up at. I'm praying it ends up at the place where Trans individuals are helped and included but not at an imbalance to other individuals who are different in they're own unique ways.
Okay......
How about them JBL 698's???!!!!!
I think your observations are pertinent.
I think this issue has become a trend. I think social media has l exploded this problem.
My experience is that true gender dysphoria is incredibly rare, and generally that is not all that is wrong with these individuals.
I think we do have a serious problem with this issue, and I think there is a lot of blame to lay at the door of my profession. For too many doctors gender changing surgery has become an interesting and challenging exercise.
Lets be blunt changing a persons sex surgically is a massive mutilation. In addition the medication required will inevitably be significantly life shortening. Giving hormones of the opposite sex to a patient will cause multiple problems and will shorten life span.
Then we get to the complications of the surgery. We have an acquaintance who allowed their son to transition to female. This surgery involve amputation of the make genitalia. This creates long term urological complications which are life long. The construction of an artificial vagina results in having to isolated loop of colon, on a vascular pedicle and trying, and I emphasize trying, to construct an artificial vagina. In the case I have knowledge of, this all went horribly wrong. This will condemn this individual to life long horrendous complications.
Going the other way is virtually impossible as construction realistic and functional artificial male anatomy is next to impossible.
I don't believe any minor developing child should have their hormonal environment changed or be subjected to mutilating surgery, because that is what it is.
Lastly I believe societal influences, especially via social media are generating a lot of this havoc. Havoc is what it is.
Next door the family have two teenage girls. The older is not sure if she is a girl or a boy. The younger age 16 is convinced she is really a boy. She is already booked for bilateral mastectomies the mother informed us a couple of days ago.
This situation is outrageous and grossly immoral. So I absolutely would ban any procedure that mutilates any minors defining sexual anatomy. Doing so, is just plain wrong. History will judge this harshly, I'm certain.
Lastly if you look at the data, a male that transitioning to female, will more often than not date females and claim to be lesbian.
A female transitioning to male, will more often than not date males and claim to be homosexual.
To say my BS alarms on on high over most of this is putting it mildly.
If the consequences of all this were not so serious, I would not give a care. But the consequences are severe and in far to many cases likely to be catastrophic.