Another day another couple hundred chucklefucks... https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation ... 2605e8a50dDonny osmond wrote:I'm not suggesting its done on a whim, I'm saying I think its been done with the best of intentions but that desire to help has blinded us to the absence of evidence.cashead wrote:Fair enough. It has been a long term.Mikey Brown wrote:I’m not sure if you’re just desperate to find something or someone to disagree with, or you simply didn’t read that properly.
I never suggested any of it was “my call”.
I’m saying there may be cases where it’s more ‘I don’t feel I fit the societal expectations of gender x’ rather than ‘I want to live my life as gender y’. But finding specific scenarios on either end of the spectrum and rigidly applying it to all cases (“no-one is born in the wrong body”) is not going to help anybody. That’s not a contentious statement.
Not their call to make (there, that's better). If you honestly think transitioning is something that's done on a whim, I've got some real estate to sell you. And I sure as sugar will not be taking anything published in a rag like Quillette without an ocean's worth of grains of salt.Donny osmond wrote:The reason the guys who wrote that article are so adamant is because they perceive a certain lackadaisical approach to medicalising kids who are encouraged to believe they're in the wrong body. When an Oxford professor of Evidence Based Medicine says, about puberty blockers and gender affirming cross sex hormone, that the current evidence base does not support informed decision making and safe practice in children... it is perhaps understandable that medics on the front line of treatment would take a stand.
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Some chucklefuck without any knowledge of the individuals and their lived experiences does not get to make that decision for them; I don't care how many letters they have after their names.
A Professor of Evidence Based Medicine isnt "some chucklefuck", and the fact that someone who knows these kids and their lived experience is so dismissive of the concerns of experienced and knowledgeable experts reflects exactly the problem with this whole discussion.
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