Question for the transgender people on this forum

[loramin]

Originally Posted by hyejin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

And I can't see 8 year olds on hormones ever passing the gut check

I agree with Hyejin that 8-year olds with hormones is absolutely unnecessary and doesn't pass the "gut check", but look, is this really worth worrying about compared to every other horrible thing that happens to children in America? For instance, every year like 15,000 children are brought in to America for sex slavery. That's not the number of child prostitutes currently in America, that's the number brought in and added to the countless existing child prostitutes.

In contrast there were what: two kids that were given transgender drugs by their parents at a young age last year? Twenty? Even if there were a thousand, it'd still be a drop in the bucket, and it'd still be a hell of a lot better than being prostituted. This makes me think that all this passion about 8-year olds with hormones has a lot less to do with caring about kids, and a lot more with wanting to enforce a particular world view.

Humans have a finite amount of energy to devote to caring about things, and for me giving hormones to a handful of 8-year-olds just doesn't rate compared to thousand and thousands of children suffering sexual abuse on a daily basis. Maybe all you trans-haters could save some of that outrage and empathy for the children who are actually suffering, and not just whatever offends your sensibilities at the moment?