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Puberty blockers should be the default (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 weeks ago by HornyQueenMiisha@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

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[–] JokklMaster@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean firstly you're advocating for taking away people's bodily autonomy by forcing them on a treatment. That's a pretty criticizable position. Secondly, as someone who studies hormones in relation to neuroscience, this would massively mess with people's bodies and have severe health outcomes. Due to hormonal disruptions, data is indicating trans people have a significantly higher rate of Alzheimer's than the general population. We still support this treatment because in their case that's better than committing suicide at a far younger age. But disrupting normal biological development is generally not a good idea. Especially without a reason specific to the individual.

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[–] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

We do all sorts of things that aren't necessarily to the benefit of the individual. Vaccination, for instance. Or washing our hands when we're sick.

A universal confrontation with an assertive choice to pick a gender could have loads of social good. Requiring every little boy to live a girl for a year and every little girl to live as a boy would do more to nip sexism and transphobia than just about anything imaginable. And those of us who are trans would have a broad net cast and not have to try and undo one puberty.

You're right that it's both unworkable and unethical to give everyone puberty blockers. But everyone who shouldn't be on them anyway has several years of being kinda non-binary, and near everyone I know had a good idea of gender by 4th grade anyway.