What will happen with the Scottish trans people who change their minds??

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Anyone with half a brain can see that the Scottish government's proposals will lead to teenagers (from 16 upwards) making ill-considered decisions based on social contagion.

But what happens when at least some of them grow up and change their minds about wanting to be the opposite sex? Will they really be pursued for committing a criminal offence?

According to the BBC:
"Anyone wanting to change their legal gender will still need to swear an oath about remaining this way for life - with it being a criminal offence to make a false declaration or application - and there would be a three-month "reflection period" before a certificate was issued."

I know roughly 10 people who would describe themselves as non-binary/trans, I'd say 7 of then have identified as such within the past 18 months, and most of them are under 25.

I also know at least 3 people who have detransitioned.

I think that there will be a lot of people getting GRCs and then regretting it, I just hope that if they do they haven't undergone surgery that they regret.

They spent 6 years on this. 6 years making sure no one changed any part of the bill instead of spending the 6 years actually investigating and analysing the bill. What a wasted opportunity.

Well at least Kinnon McKinnon is making some sense and getting discussion out there. But how unsurprising that they as a female have experienced abuse and threats discussing it. How many male transgender researchers would push through to find the truth? How many males want to maintain the silence?

There is a (previously) fairly uncontroversial principal that children should be protected from any action they can't change their mind about in future.

This is why they aren't allowed to get a tattoo, after all. And tattoos can be removed. This seems to be a violation of that princial.

It’ll end in a huge pile of litigation, just like the transgender surgery on kids in Thailand did. Thailand didn’t change the law to prevent the horrible damage being done to the children, but they did change the law to prevent those operations being done after the children grew up and sued.

The government won’t do mucb to protect kids until the kids grow up and sue.

Not how governing a country should be, is it. 😢