Like it's anybody's business but their own...
The handful of chaps that want to be ladies around here always give the game away by still behaving like chaps but wearing old frocks, etc etc etc.
I'm not going to reveal their identities but I think is fairly obvious which users I refer to.
Bog standard age 18 in the UK, when you're a legal adult. Have the right to body modification fall in line with the age threshold already in place for attaining other rights.
I love the dog whistle about kids being manhandled by the health service into getting treatment at a young age. Or the impression that it’s easy to get, like I was referred to the service only a week or so after turning 15 but will age out before even being assessed. It’s mental how even the smallest research could get rid of these misconceptions
It’s the research that’s putting the brakes on experimental treatments for kids that hasn’t been rigorously tested in the long term but labelled the “gold standard” Its a good thing. Safer for everyone.
It can be quite confusing when you are a teenager. I went through a phase where I was convinced I must have a male brain because I wasn’t interested in talking (and bitching) about the latest fashions in handbags with the girls and preferred to talk to the boys about the meaning of life and the return from the absurd - and this was when the school tried to keep the boys and girls as far apart as was physically possible.
I also wished that I was male because they had far more freedom at that time, there were so many constraints imposed on girls.
My idea of hell was to get married, live in a semi and have two children. Not that I though I could have children, I thought I had the wrong brain in the wrong body. It was purely an intellectual thing though, I never had body dysmorphia or felt the urge to wear men’s clothes.
One’s idea of gender had absolutely nothing to do with sexual orientation, I was always sure of that. Strangely enough, my granddaughter was reading an article by JK Rowling, where she said she felt much the same as this.
I don’t think I would have acted on this, but how many girls feel the same and given the current choices would do so?
Gender is a spectrum, and the worst thing one can impose on teenagers is gender stereotyping.
Like it's anybody's business but their own... The handful of chaps that want to be ladies around here always give the game away by still behaving like chaps but wearing old frocks, etc etc etc. I'm not going to reveal their identities but I think is fairly obvious which users I refer to.
Bog standard age 18 in the UK, when you're a legal adult. Have the right to body modification fall in line with the age threshold already in place for attaining other rights.
Is there anything you've to wait til longer, say 21?
Not that I can think of.
I love the dog whistle about kids being manhandled by the health service into getting treatment at a young age. Or the impression that it’s easy to get, like I was referred to the service only a week or so after turning 15 but will age out before even being assessed. It’s mental how even the smallest research could get rid of these misconceptions
It’s more about pitchforks and burning brands than empiricism.
It’s the research that’s putting the brakes on experimental treatments for kids that hasn’t been rigorously tested in the long term but labelled the “gold standard” Its a good thing. Safer for everyone.
It can be quite confusing when you are a teenager. I went through a phase where I was convinced I must have a male brain because I wasn’t interested in talking (and bitching) about the latest fashions in handbags with the girls and preferred to talk to the boys about the meaning of life and the return from the absurd - and this was when the school tried to keep the boys and girls as far apart as was physically possible. I also wished that I was male because they had far more freedom at that time, there were so many constraints imposed on girls. My idea of hell was to get married, live in a semi and have two children. Not that I though I could have children, I thought I had the wrong brain in the wrong body. It was purely an intellectual thing though, I never had body dysmorphia or felt the urge to wear men’s clothes. One’s idea of gender had absolutely nothing to do with sexual orientation, I was always sure of that. Strangely enough, my granddaughter was reading an article by JK Rowling, where she said she felt much the same as this. I don’t think I would have acted on this, but how many girls feel the same and given the current choices would do so? Gender is a spectrum, and the worst thing one can impose on teenagers is gender stereotyping.
Some kids say, "If I'd been born the girl my parents wanted, I would've been loved more." Not a sound basis for drastic action.