astropenguin5

Fair, tbh I’m not the most educated on this subject.

Really at the end of the day it should just be down to the person/child and their doctor. And puberty blockers should be an available option. There’s so many different situations we really shouldn’t be making blanket statements anyway

Ok but also puberty happens well before the brain is even mostly formed properly. I’m kinda ok with giving kids time to make life altering decisions. Imo puberty blockers should be given to anyone even questioning their gender that wants them, so they have time to explore and choose before they have the ‘wrong’ puberty.

1. You are vastly overrating the effects here.

2. Do you understand how detrimental gender dysphoria is to one’s mental health? It generally causes pretty bad depression and often suicidality if not able to be improved, and especially in those forced to be closeted. Going through the wrong puberty makes this even worse, so being able to delay that to allow a child to more fully form their sense of self is valuable.

If I ever have a kid (if I have kids) going through that I would much rather take the slight risk of delayed bone growth to let them make the best informed decision they can about their gender, and so they aren’t depressed for years and potentially kill themselves. Bone strength problems are also usually treatable with other things too.