Not being able to smoke, drink, or vote don’t have documented impact on the risk of lasting mental illness and suicide. Not being able to express gender or sexuality do.
Indeed, but there have been a lot of recent cases that children have had a sex change and regret it.
It's ok to be welcoming, but not okay to perform irreversible acts.
I would love to hear what your sources are on this. Hormone blockers are reversible, and plastic surgery for a sex change isn’t legal until 18, though some states allow 16 year olds with parental permission. And there is no medical intervention before the onset of puberty. Someone may have regretted publicly identifying one way, but in terms of irreversible acts, a child in the US couldn’t have had access to that. I would recommend a quick google search of what exactly is and isn’t reversible: there’s a lot of misinformation out there.
My opinion, is that anyone should be allowed to identify as they please, and other people should respect that identity.
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I sure as hell would've had less internal conflict if I wasn't forced to conform to society's gender norms.
It's ok to be welcoming, but not okay to perform irreversible acts.
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I sure as hell would've had less internal conflict if I wasn't forced to conform to society's gender norms.