I do personally vacillate on not only voicing concerns but caring at all on medical transitions for kids, especially when always attacked for doing so
It is a very effective tactic to motivate apathy. I won’t announce it, but many times I think “fuck them, and fuck their parents, if they want to potentially mess their kids up for life, I hope I will never have an opportunity to say ‘I told you so’”
But whether I am purely apathetic or not, never have my concerns changed for these procedures:
1. I think that parents, especially queer parents, can psychologically condition their kids to be confused about their gender. I have absolutely nothing against queer parents in any other regard as parents though, nor do I think the bulk of them do this. Even straight parents might have some muchausen by proxy shit going on, using their kid’s “disorders” to gain attention in their own lives. So the idea that “my parents agree with me on this” I cannot blindly support like a trained clapping seal
2. I don’t trust kids to have the maturity to make these decisions, if anything this is the most immature few generations of kids I’ve seen. Even 20-something’s nowadays strike me as very immature
3. I don’t trust these gender clinics. I think there is a financial motive here, in addition I think them being mostly staffed with queer staff creates a bias. I think the staff see medical transition and affirmation as the best possible outcome always, and look for ways to make the symptoms fit the diagnosis rather than looking for ways the thoughts and behaviors don’t fit. Like I said, I would LOVE to see the rates at which medical transition and affirmation are recommended. I bet it is way above 80% of clients, but of course with this being PHI we may never get this data
My concerns won’t change, but yea call me a bigot enough and it is effective at making me shut up about them and think “fuck them”
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