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bonkly68 t1_j9vsrbe wrote

As a background to the entire issue of sex change procedures, I recommend this account from a queer former case manager at a US transgender center.

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Good-Expression-4433 t1_j9vti0i wrote

More people are struck by lightning than detransition. There's cases that do happen but the system already has checks in place and erecting even more leads to halting care for people who need it way more than it stops people who don't.

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[deleted] t1_j9vu9ns wrote

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sanash t1_j9vvfxy wrote

Uhh...people literally regret medical procedures all the time. Virtually every single medical procedure involves some potential amount of harm/risk.

So much in fact that there are literally research studies on it.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0949265821003535

I'd venture to guess there are more people as a percentage that regret their knee/hip replacements than there are people that regret their transition.

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Good-Expression-4433 t1_j9vvyez wrote

Side effects can occur with every drug prescribed off label. That's why doctors want to be the ones to prescribe them and monitor instead of going back to the days before accepted trans care where trans people, including minors, self medicated or killed themselves. Puberty blockers like Lupron in particular, which is often the extent minors are allowed to even go to until the age of medical privacy and consent, have been studied and widely used for decades with even cisgender kids and found to be overwhelmingly safe.

Again, to erect more barriers to stop fringe cases ultimately limits care for exponentially more people who did need it.

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Brittainthecommie2 t1_j9xr9r1 wrote

Bro, your obsession with being an anti trans hate monger is fucking weird.

You just wake up every day thinking about trans men and women? And then spend the rest of the day hate posting and spreading misinformation. Go take a breath and find a hobby. Damn.

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oh_hai_fascists t1_ja17du6 wrote

you mean the person who has no medical expertise but handles processing insurance and that’s it… sure. yeah that would make them an expert.

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bonkly68 t1_ja26cv7 wrote

Doing intake with the client and their family and following the entire case from beginning to the end.... I didn't use the word 'expert', which actually does apply here. She didn't say, but sounds like she saw hundreds of cases. If out of two hundred cases she could have reasonably managed (taking a conservative guess - she saw intake calls rise from 10 to 70 per month) a dozen ended badly, would be six percent. That's a large number and numbers don't fully convey suffering of each individual.

It should raise red flags that only a couple of doctors are involved in approving surgery and hormones with life altering consequences, including loss of fertility for woman, and a lifetime of health problems for many, due to the powerful systematic effects of the medicines involved.

Letting kids pull the trigger on these procedures... I don't think you read the article. You don't think anything odd about groups of girls from the same high school suddenly coming in and saying we're actually boys. In my opinion, hormones and surgery don't make them boys any more than plastic surgery made Michael Jackson look white or Mary Tyler Moore look young.

Historically, most people who wanted to be the other or both sexes, just dressed and acted and lived the part.

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