Somebody on social media posted that they were being investigated by the police for misgendering somebody.
If that were actually true, it would be cool but realistically millions of people are misgendered on a daily basis, including many of those of you reading this blog.
What really puzzles me though, is this person claims to be an 'LGB ally' (I noticed the 'T' was left out, perhaps intentionally) but is actively against 'medical transitions' of children.
From what I can gather, this person is a transgender person themselves but they are quite oppositional.
If a young person wishes to transition and has the blessing and from their families, who are we to deny them that right and freedom?
If it's going to make that individual feel more real, more like who they are and improve their mental wellbeing, it can only be positive.
Transitioning often involves intervention from medical practitioners, whether that be taking hormone therapy or through surgical means.
These choices are discussed by endocrinologists, psychologists, psychiatrists and others with both parents and the young person, before ever being approved.
It's not the business of anybody else not directly involved to object.
This alleged ally has lots of other interesting content which demonstrates their claim as an ally to be questionable.
For instance, they wrote something which mentioned 'the arrogance of the trans community' and that overweight people taking hormones 'need a little bit of help with losing weight to resolve their body dysmorphia'.
Seems to me that this twenty-something year old has issues with their own transition and has decided to stop others from transitioning.
It's not your friggin' business!
Seriously, if your transition didn't work out the way you wanted, that's not the fault of other young transgender individuals.
Let them be who they want to be.
Your transition is not their transition.
Lay off!
What do you think of this?
Do you think everyone has the right to transition if they want to?
Comments (4)
If they mentioned “lgb -alliance” anywhere, it’s just another TURF-spoiler made to look “gay-friendly”.
I mean like i don't think that everyone who is an ally or everyone in the community have to have the same opinions and if they don't they're homophobic or transphobic but i do find it a bit weird how they stress on this topic a lot. I think it should probably be an age limit tho like 14 or 16 because i don't think children under 14 can make those decisions just yet and plus surgery can be dangerous especially something as big as transitioning-but i'm not trans so idk
It’s just biologically impossible, because after 14 they are already hitting last years of puberty, and will be irreversible damaged by it.
Though, the only thing they got offered is “puberty blockers”, which just delays hormonal changes. Surgery thing is only being mentioned by anti-lgbt groups. Same ones that claiming that “gay people are pedos”.
Plenty of children go through transition medically with parental and practitioner .
It's not a decision made by a child alone and there's an entire process involved, therefore age limits would only be a negative factor that would cause more harm than good.