Re: Conversion therapy and gender affirmative care
Posted by monkeyLostInHead on 2025-October-14 14:11:08, TuesdayIn reply to Conversion therapy and gender affirmative care posted by Pharmakon on 2025-October-14 11:53:29, Tuesday
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it all depends if one believes your framing or not. it comes down to whether you believe girls can be boys, or boys can be girls. I dont believe that, therefore any child who believes that is either being misled by someone, or is mistaken themselves. I do not believe that action should be taken on either someone being misled, or having a false belief. I do not believe that "feeling that you are a girl" should mean taking steps towards becoming a girl ( which is not possible anyway) I dont accept your euphemism of "gender affirming care" If child decided they were a fire truck, would you support them in medication and/or transition to achieve that goal? if a child decided they were trans-abled, would you support them in medication and/or transition to achieve that goal? You have already accepted that there is such a thing as "gay or trans kids" where that is actually the question. children are influenced, subtly or not so subtly, by their parents and the people around them. There is no current way to determine how much influence the parents/teachers/significant figures had in their beliefs There is no current way to determine "who they really are" from a false belief. So there is no way to know if "they are empowered to make those decisions without interference from the state, their parents, me, or anyone else" because there have been years of influence and ideas and behaviors from the parents before we even reach this point. Therapy is the best way we have to help people. Although that depends a lot on the therapist. Conversion therapy, or even just talk therapy, with a bad therapist would not be good. When we invite the nanny state to substitute its opinion about how gay or trans kids should live their lives for the opinions of the kids themselves, we are asking for bad outcomes. But you want the nanny state to pay for treatment. |
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