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@realcaseyrollins
Ah yes, dangerous gender transition. This seems like a rather biased source.
@jump_spider They're biased but they're not wrong
@realcaseyrollins
What's dangerous about transitioning?
@jump_spider Firstly, it often consists of genital mutilation, and sometimes includes taking a dangerous level of opposite-sex hormones. Apart from that, people who transition often regret their decision later and wish to reverse it.
But some people have the procedure done and are fine, ignoring the self-injury aspect. Although it's morally wrong, it's more important to address these procedures targeting kids. If a kid has these procedures done, his or her bone plates will not develop properly.
@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?
Health risks: https://youtu.be/Eaq6kbk0LZ4 (skip to 3:51 for the scientific evidence)
On regretting sex transition surgery:
https://news.sky.com/story/hundreds-of-young-trans-people-seeking-help-to-return-to-original-sex-11827740
Also chopping off a penis is different than ripping out your cheek. Sure, you've lost a part of your body that helps you eat by keeping food in your mouth, but at least you can still eat.
If you get castrated, you cannot procreate. End of story. It completely removes a bodily function. It's more akin to getting two feet amputated.
@realcaseyrollins
I dismiss Steven Crowder as even a tertiary source of medical scientific evidence. He is an entertainer, not an informative source.
The sky.com article is more robust; however, to draw the conclusion you have from it is an oversimplification. There are hundreds of factors involved in a person's experience of gender dysphoria, perhaps even a majority of them being socially external. The conclusion I draw from it is more nuanced: The medical community currently has a "one size fits all" approach to medical transitions, and frankly it can cause harm to individuals who are not sure exactly *how* they want to transition. Medical transition is merely one way, and even personally, I chose to stop HRT after four years. Furthermore, it is my admittedly personal belief that once a person begins to question if they are cisgender, they have started transitioning and can never be referred to as cisgender again with complete accuracy; I'm actually a fan of the concept of circumgender for this reason, the identity that describes a person as having labored and journeyed with their gender and currently identifies with the gender assigned to them at birth. The lingua franca and concepts involved with gender identity are still very much evolving at a rapid pace, so it should be no surprise that the labels a person uses to describe their experience and identity will change over the course of their exploration
@realcaseyrollins
So long as you're cognizant of your claims being merely your own opinions, that's fine
@jump_spider I disagree with your opinion.