lovely articles on yahoo "news" about transgender children/gender megathread

[TheABELBOTO]

didn't he do this in the other thread lolno the problem is that kids think their transgender in the first place but in reality its just that they want to be special so badly that they convince themselves that they are.

Foxscoth was right, this is becoming a circlejerk

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[Akio]

Foxscoth was right, this is becoming a circlejerk

the only possible reason why you would post this is because my opinion makes you upset

[Trogtor]

society disgusts me

[otto-san]

the only possible reason why you would post this is because my opinion makes you upset

i'm going out on a tiny limb by saying that it's vaguely offensive to dismiss an accepted mental condition as being rooted in some kind of self-centred attention complex rather than actually existing

generally speaking, that's not a very popular claim (nor one that i expect could be reasonably substantiated)

[Refticus]

society disgusts me

[-Setro-]

all this loving 'hero' stuff these handicaps get for saying their transgender or whatever is getting to kids heads.

this so much
you aren't a forgetin hero for being transgender
yes you may enjoy life better, and I'm ok with that, but you aren't a hero in any way

[otto-san]

this so much
you aren't a forgetin hero for being transgender
yes you may enjoy life better, and I'm ok with that, but you aren't a hero in any way

the reason why people consider trans people publicly coming out to be heroes is because being trans is still incredibly misunderstood/misrepresented, and there are many people that just straight-up don't like trans people or the idea of people being trans as a result.

i'm 100% with this:

I can't wait until the day where you say "im gay" or "im transgender" and nobody gives a stuff

because at that point it'll be considered normal and accepted, and that's always a nice thing to have in the world

[Utsuho Reiuji]

When I was little, I wished I was a girl. A thought all the time about how much I'd rather be a girl, and how I hated being a boy.

Then I grew up.
I am still a guy.

[Refticus]

When I was little, I wished I was a girl. A thought all the time about how much I'd rather be a girl, and how I hated being a boy.

Then I grew up.
I am still a guy.

there's surgery and treatments to fix that, such as HRT (hormone replacement treatment)

[Biostorm]

The Yahoo comments section is a cesspool of radical conservatism and trolls, if there is even a difference there, glad my parents were smart enough to make the switch to Google, Yahoo is a cancer on the internet that needs to die already

[Narkro555]

I remember a story about this kid who was going insane at a very young age and acting really strangely. His parents noticed he preferred to dress effeminately and play with girl toys, but took that as a normal deviation. They took him to a doctor for years, but couldn't find anything wrong, until they saw him trying to breastfeed a doll in the doctor's office. They recognized this as a solid case of gender dysphoria, and after surgery and hormone treatment, the kid is to this day indistinguishable from any 15 year old girl and she has been perfectly happy for at least a decade now. I can't find the source, but it was a TV documentary.

I know there are people who have it as a "phase." One girl at my school has changed gender identities and names numerous times and is very draconian about having people use impersonal-sounding pronouns for herself. It got so annoying I quit my job at the LGBT student services department. But there are real cases of gender dysphoria out there, that can only be solved by science, and need to be respected.

[Refticus]

i think there was a forumer who went through hormone replacement, i don't remember the name though

[Akio]

i think there was a forumer who went through hormone replacement, i don't remember the name though

verticalhorizon and ono-sendai or something

[ultimamax]

Being 5 years old is probably too early to say whether someone is actually transgendered.

However, they won't be starting HRT until puberty from what I understand, so effectively you're just letting your child experiment with their gender identity, which is fine.

I've read stories of trans people feeling dysphoric even around this age.

[sir dooble]

However, they won't be starting HRT until puberty from what I understand, so effectively you're just letting your child experiment with their gender identity, which is fine

In some cases it's not even actual replacement therapy that they perform (at least in the case of male to female transitions).
It's possible now for treatments to prevent male puberty, so that the boys don't develop a male body, instead remaining skinny and mostly androgynous as pre-pubescent children are.

My qualm with it though is that boys start puberty anywhere around 10-13, and that's a very young age to make big decisions regarding your body.
It's a difficult thing for me to comment or judge upon however, as I've never felt gender dysphoric at any age, nor had a young child who did. I would imagine that in the future if I had a child who felt dysphoric at a young age (or simply just preferred being a girl to a boy), I would probably be against them having those sorts of treatments until they're 18+. But I couldn't say unless I was in that position.
Anyone interested in this topic can find a rather interesting documentary by Louis Theroux which came out this year.
It's not available on iPlayer at the moment, but I'm sure you can find a copy of it somewhere online with a bit of googling.