Odd that posters have Hera have gone quiet. Must be rigorously compiling that research to show all embryos are female “for weeks”. Can’t wait to see the carefully curated list of tweets saying the same they rely on, over and above, you know, actual science.
It’s impossible to debate with people who don’t even seem to know the arguments of the side they are are arguing for. “Cross-sex hormones aren’t available until 16”. And? Mermaids has been campaigning for ages against the NHS guidelines of waiting until 16 for cross sex hormones, they see earlier and earlier chemical and surgical intervention as not problematic at all, because so what if a child chemically castrated or surgically mutilated realizes they are not trans after all, and most children do desist after all, small price to pay! Susie Green put her own child on blockers at 12, estrogen at 13, and took him to Thailand for new-vagina surgery at 16. She is on a mission to justify the horrible ways she encouraged the mutilation of her own child all because they did not fit stereotypes of what she though a boy should be, by encouraging the mutilation of other children, to be infertile, chemically dependent for life, and at severe risk of botched surgeries and lifelong interventions.
Children “want” lots of things. To be the opposite sex, to be a unicorn, to ask to eat off the floor like the family dog for a month, to get a tattoo like their grandma has, to have a tail like a monkey, to not go to school, to not eat their veggies, to have ice cream for breakfast. We don’t let children do whatever they want because we know they can’t make good decisions based on experience and maturity.
What madness has fallen that we allow children who still think of 20 year olds as old and wise, to sterilize themselves? To put themselves at increased lifelong risk of certain cancers? Or bone loss? To lower their brain maturity and intelligence by avoiding natural puberty? To opt to have immature sex organs? To be non orgasmic? (See the sad case of Jazz Jennings) To be forced to use more experimental surgeries with high risk of complications (again, see Jazz). What are the adults who are supposed to be looking after their children’s best interests thinking when they convince them they can be the opposite sex, that they can just borrow their sister’s uterus for making babies one day, that sexual stereotypes are a basis to not be the sex they are?