It's Allgood, Serra @jump_spider@qoto.org

@realcaseyrollins
I consider this source to be largely unbiased, thank you. This particular link discusses the scientific validity of the claim you made as well as serious scientific methodological concerns re: how desistance is experimentally operationalized. In short, the claim that an overwhelming or even simple majority of transgender children stop being trans is spurious at best.

@realcaseyrollins
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization

My argument is that your or anyone else's expectation that I or any other transgender person will ever "experience what it is like to be cisgender" is tautologically unsound

@freemo @realcaseyrollins
And perhaps god made some of us transgender for that matter

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/request-for-future-feedback-on-practical-cryptography-posts/84?u=jump_spider

@realcaseyrollins
Valid

@realcaseyrollins
I reject your god and will thank you to not push it on me or anyone else

@realcaseyrollins
An 18 year old doesn't understand the ramifications of being a legal adult, yet is and learns through life experience. Transgender adults grow up from transgender children; why should a trans child have to "prove" they understand an experience, namely being cisgender, that they will never have, before they are allowed to medically transition? Who is the gatekeeper for self-actualization?

@realcaseyrollins
Citation, please

Is Daybreak on Netflix an attempt to cash in on American Gen Z? Or what Millennials think Gen Z is? Regardless, I'm enjoying it

@realcaseyrollins
Strictly anecdotally, many of us report emotional and general psychological trauma experienced from the effects of natal puberty. With respect, we know exactly what it's like to be the gender we are; puberty typically only affirms it. If a child expresses genuine interest in suppressing their natal puberty, why should a parent not be able to consent on their behalf to puberty hormone blocker treatment, the same way a parent can consent on a child's behalf to get a lip piercing?

@realcaseyrollins
I'll follow the links tomorrow to give my due diligence, but I'm relaxing for the night.

What about phalloplasty and top surgery? Trans femme people are not the only ones who seek GRS.

The statement that vaginoplasty precludes reproduction is factual yet I do not think anything was meaningfully conveyed wrt morality. What about a bilateral salpingectomy? Vasectomy? Orchiectomy? Only the last is strictly related to GRS, but the former are voluntary surgical sterilization procedures in general. Are they immoral and if so, on what basis?

@freemo
Absolutely false. You forgot about the cheese

@Shamar
Thank you for sharing, I've added these links to my read later list 😀

@henriquesga

@freemo
That's a fair interpretation, and I definitely recognize mine is highly idiosyncratic . I just see being called "well read" as the functional equivalent of someone saying, "huh, neat." It signals a social cue rather than indication of interest and desire for exploration

@realcaseyrollins
What academic research has lead you to suggest that most of us regret medical transition?

In what moral framework is medical transition "morally wrong"?

What is the functional difference between someone who pays professional to surgically remove part of their cheek such that their teeth are visible (a well known though obviously extreme form of aesthetic body modification) and genital reconstruction surgery? Is one person's idea of self-mutilation not clearly another person's idea of self-actualization?

What medical research has lead you to suggest that hormone replacement therapy for medical transition dangerous?

Have you considered that a desire to detransition may have less to do with personal regret and more to do with how those of us who do not "pass" even after medical transition are treated by others?

To be frank concerning children who wish to medically transition, because they have not reached the legal age of majority and medical transition being still very much bound in legal approval, how would you suggest a child to be able to pursue medical transition at all? A 16-year-old girl can choose to have unprotected sex and there are many who believe she should accept the lifelong consequences and responsibilities that may result from her choice; why should that be different for a transgender child?

At this point in my life, being called intelligent or even well read feels like an insult because to me it's a way to dismiss ideas and arguments I support. I couldn't care less about how what I say reflects on my talent or education, beyond that I am attributed as a source or supporter; tell me what you think of the idea itself. I am no longer a precocious child performing for personal praise.

Trans femme power move: Using your phone to apply lipstick while standing at the men's room sink in a bar bathroom because there's no mirror

@realcaseyrollins
What's dangerous about transitioning?