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originally posted by: kaylaluv
originally posted by: Stormdancer777
I'm just trying to be helpful, take in as much knowledge while you can, good luck,
poor kids.
I'm just trying to be helpful too, which is why I'm also including this website of successful transgender women. Just to spread a little more knowledge.
ai.eecs.umich.edu...
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: JadeStar
Thank you for coming forward. Here's hoping you can open a few minds.
originally posted by: rickymouse
And the people who do this are considering themselves normal. I sure I am glad I am not normal, normal must be six shades of crazy in this country. Maybe the CPS should go after these kind of people instead of going after parents of kids who are sick and missing too much school.
originally posted by: NavyDoc
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: chuck258
You assume that children are idiots. Adults really need to stop doing that about children. Children are a LOT smarter than most adults give them credit for.
OTOH, children are not just shorter adults either. They may know (or think they know) it all. but they certainly lack the wisdom that experience brings and they definitely have limited cognition and brain function on both psychological and physiological levels compared to adults. This is why minors are, in general, not considered able to make their own decisions. They are much more impulse driven and lack full realization of the permanence of the consequences of many choices.
originally posted by: Frocharocha
Changing gender on that age is physically impossible with drugs. They will be forever a boy or girl unless bio-technology advances a lot.
originally posted by: Frocharocha
Changing gender on that age is physically impossible with drugs. They will be forever a boy or girl unless bio-technology advances a lot.
originally posted by: boymonkey74
a reply to: JadeStar
Why do some think it is always a bad thing? If it helps kids be who they want to be and If it not just a quick decision well go with what the child really wants.
Good on you Jade you are a star
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
originally posted by: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
originally posted by: kaylaluv
a reply to: TruthxIsxInxThexMist
Oh I see your post got three stars. That's really sad.
7 stars actually.
Means I'm right and standing up for what is right.
No, it just means that 7 other people are just as bigoted as you and agree with you. Stars aren't a measure of accuracy...
originally posted by: zazzafrazz
a reply to: beezzer
So do we for children ban all ADHD medication, anxiety meds, gynoplastia medication in boys, pimple medication, the pill umm what else.... because you know, it changes the "existing" biology?
originally posted by: DaRAGE
I'm sorry but most of the people who have written in this thread have no clue.
The drug stops the hormones. It allows the 12 year old child to mature mentally and make a decision years later (yes even when they're 18) as to whether they will go through with the change. It's an easier and better way of changing from a guy to a girl. You wouldn't get big man hands, huge broad shoulders, a smaller waist, facial hair, a face that looks more like a guys than a girls, a deeper sounding voice that sounds like a guy, a huge Adams apple, etc. Things that you would need lots of painful operations for, if you allowed your body the normal hormones at puberty.
All they're doing is stopping the hormones to make a possible future sex change easier and without surgery. This decision for sex change can easily be delayed this way until the child is old enough to make a decision for themselves as an adult.
There's nothing nefarious here except the reactions of a lot of small minded people within this thread.
originally posted by: TrappedPrincess
I put this notion in my head, me and me alone. I realized I was different at 4, I would even (and sorry to be crude) push it in and out of sight AT 4 I was doing this. I knew but didn't know if that makes sense. It wasn't until I saw another like me on television and in a magazine that I put two and two together.
Sadly though because of fear of backwards reactions from society I waited for a long time. I regret not being more open earlier, it would have made this easier. I certainly would have loved to get hormones at 12 but even had I shared my true self my parents would not have gone for that. Yet here I am now and out to most of my relevant world and happier than I have been in a long time.t reply to: Stormdancer777
originally posted by: Krazysh0t
a reply to: chuck258
You assume that children are idiots. Adults really need to stop doing that about children. Children are a LOT smarter than most adults give them credit for. Second, just because a boy hears that it is possible to be attracted to other boys isn't going to make him bi-curious. Then even if it does, he may experiment a little bit and if he is straight will go right back to liking girls. So no big deal anyways.