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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Julie Bindel in the Spectator

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Xanthangum · 10/10/2020 09:14

www.spectator.co.uk/article/puberty-blockers-for-children

Putting kids on drugs and a possible path to unnecessary surgery because they are experiencing psychological distress caused by external factors is a human rights violation. It is high time that we see it for what it is. Let’s hope the court does, and this practice of medicating and carving up healthy young bodies will be replaced by appropriate care and support for these vulnerable young women. That I write this as a happy lesbian as opposed to a regretful transman is only because when I felt as Keira did, the GIDs clinic did not exist.

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LizzieSiddal · 10/10/2020 09:17

Even the headline makes me fume. How the heck have we got to this position where it’s acceptable to do this to our children?

Let’s hope the judges agree with Julie, Janice and many, many other.

Xanthangum · 10/10/2020 10:08

There is always that nagging feeling that the judiciary may not be as neutral as we hope... but every day it gets smaller and smaller...

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NewlyGranny · 10/10/2020 12:10

Calling what those clinics do with blockers, hormones and surgery (not the counselling) 'healthcare' is misleading. Activists claimig that 'transkids' are being or will be denied healthcare is disingenuous at best, dishonest at worst. If any of those children fell ill or had an accident, the NHS would be there for them as it would be for any of us!

Slowing down the rush, taking time to counsel and talk, involving parents and carers, exploring likely future paths and ensuring children have a grasp of what they're giving up as well as potentially gaining takes time and money, but I consider it would be well-spent.

Dealing with the future fall-out from children who are only ten - ten! - at the youngest is likely to be far more expensive, not to mention the potential human anguish being called down on individuals who later change their minds or understand too late what the personal costs are.

Puberty is the passage to adulthood and allowing children to skip that step can trap them in a twilight zone of perpetual but aging childhood. "Stop the world, I want to get off!" is something we have all probably felt during adolescence or since, but in my opinion, granting that wish to a pre-pubescent child lets too many genies out of too many bottles to be safe.

quixote9 · 11/10/2020 08:53

Surgery can't solve the problem because the body isn't the problem.

The problem is social pressure or psychological issues or both. Surgery doesn't touch those.

It's like looking for your dropped coin under the streetlight because it's easier to see there, even though you dropped it a block away.

Feminists like Bindel (and us) have no trouble seeing that. It's so obvious, most of us can't believe we have to say it. The rest? They're desperate to believe, for some reason.

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