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> No one is saying transition is a "regrettable outcome". Please for the love of christ just spend 10 minutes reading some of the gender critical arguments bef
by DanBC 6y ago
> No one is saying transition is a "regrettable outcome".
Please for the love of christ just spend 10 minutes reading some of the gender critical arguments before trying to represent them here, because you're saying stuff that is 1) untrue and 2) very obviously untrue to anyone who's given even cursory attention to what these people are saying.
Transition currently has very low rates of regret; lower than many other forms of surgery. Hip replacement has higher rates of regret and there's not a mainstream movement trying to prevent access to that.
- slibhb 6y agoYou interpreted my post as a bizarre absolute. I meant "no one here," not "no one period". Either way, your post is nit-picking. My point was that being against affirmation in all cases is simple not the same thing as viewing all transitions as a "regrettable outcome". > Transition currently has very low rates of regret; lower than many other forms of surgery. Hip replacement has higher rates of regret and there's not a mainstream movement trying to prevent access to that. Wonderful. But hip replacement is not elective surgery based on the subjective feelings of the patient. As long as one person regrets it, it is my opinion that we should prefer a watchful-waiting approach and I can say that without "failing to support trans people".
- howinteresting 6y agoNo, you can't say that without failing to support trans people, I'm afraid. Doing harm is as bad as allowing harm.