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theprincess

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    Comment #36636843

    > the argument against irreversibly treating children is still a reasonable position Allowing a trans child to go through their natal puberty is not a neutral act. A trans person w…

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    Comment #36636797

    > If you're not ideologically invested in this topic and are sincerely interested in the truth, I'd urge you to look at your own country from an outsider's point of view. The point…

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    Comment #36636654

    I think you're ideologically motivated, and arguing from a position of emotional distaste for trans people rather than unbiased concern about medical practice. Here's why: > any le…

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    Comment #36636418

    > The UK and the EU have moved away from gender-affirming care and designated it an experimental treatment. The UK and EU are hardly a paradise for trans people. Until recently the…

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    Comment #36635915

    > A shallow dismissal, a perfectly reasonable argument against irreversible action for changing children’s genders is that many of them aren’t so sure as it seems and later want to…

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    Comment #36634996

    Children with gender dysphoria are not "perfectly healthy." They have a serious problem. The level of hubris in assuming that all these heterosexual parents, many of them conservat…

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    Comment #36634937

    > Being intersex is very rare and unfortunate, and I am sympathetic to those with such birth defects. Agnes Torres was not intersex, she was merely classed as such which allowed he…

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    Comment #36634858

    > Not really though, it's perfectly possible to be gender non-conforming without undergoing drastic medical procedures. In particular, all the women and men who reject the societal…

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    Comment #36634684

    > Gay people don't require any medical interventions to be gay, so it's not really the same thing. Many homophobes have made "medical" arguments about why sodomy should be banned. …

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    Comment #36634604

    > I think you're jumping to conclusions --- my reading of GP is that "the cause" == dysphoria. Conversion therapists like Ken Zucker know full well about gender dysphoria and helpe…

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    Comment #36634463

    > pushed into taking these experimental treatments for a few months It's a shame that this person was in such a difficult situation, but, barring some extraordinarily rare reaction…

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    Comment #36634310

    And yet, Lupron has been used since the 1970's to treat precocious puberty and every single ban on using it for gender affirming care still allows it to be administered for that pu…

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    Comment #36634002

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    Comment #36633763

    Puberty blockers have been administered as a valid treatment for precocious puberty for many decades. All of the bans on them specifically still allow them to be used for this purp…

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    Comment #36424436

    Controversial theory, most of the people who claim to be "ready", and seem oddly excited about the possibility of upheaval and turmoil, are already lost down some sort of algorithm…

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    Comment #36394071

    The common thread between homophobia and transphobia is a dislike of gender non-conformity. Since the days of Ernst Rohm [0] there has been an element of the gay community convince…

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    Comment #36393753

    Calling gender affirming care "gay conversion therapy" is a disingenuous tactic deployed by anti-trans activists. One of the most common things that parents who disown their trans …

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    Comment #36364102

    I think you're right. On one side, you see adults who believe that sexuality and cross-gender identification are immutable, or at least practically immutable. Their goal is to expo…

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    Comment #36205107

    You'll also notice that the logo makes the face from the "NPC" memes that would have still been popular among the 4chan "politically incorrect" crowd right around the time this pro…

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    Comment #36074877

    I'm curious to know what sorts of things you were thinking about when you wrote this. The tone of it reads as emotional and defensive rather than informative. It would probably con…

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    Comment #35919177

    > You have seriously misunderstood the entire premise of my comment and created a shadow of it that you are now fighting. Okay. > Feminism is a hate masquerading as a fight for wom…

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    Comment #35918568

    > They are conservative, do not have modern interpretations of gender equality, and have higher birth rates. What are their un-modern interpretations of gender equality that you'd …

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    Comment #35908025

    > I think you have assumed the worst from my comment. I assumed that you are against gender equality. Gender equality meaning that men and women are given the freedom to do as they…

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    Comment #35906548

    > treating men and women like they are the same is the first problem Russia is rather socially conservative and their birth rates are low as well. It's quite a stretch to blame low…