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In reply to the discussion: What Democrats Are Getting Wrong About Transgender Rights [View all]
meadowlander
(4,730 posts)64. Fine.
12% of the US population is teenagers. 1% of those teenagers are trans. So 401,880 trans teens in America. So an occurrence of 2.1 in 100,000 means maybe 8 people in the entire US have accessed this kind of surgery as teenagers. 0.00000002% of the US population. Or statistically zero.
And I can basically guarantee that it was under the circumstances that I described in my post above. Some of them will be situations where the teen started the job themselves and botched it. No kid and no family does this casually or when it is not medically necessary.
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oh so people who are stronger and faster are the problem? I thought that was the point of sports
WhiskeyGrinder
18 hrs ago
#4
Individual "women born women" (people give birth to women?) differ "biologically" from each other as well. So?
WhiskeyGrinder
17 hrs ago
#14
Better access to care to support transitioning actually helps this problem better than banning it.
meadowlander
18 hrs ago
#6
There are no doctors anywhere that perform gender affirming surgery on minors.
meadowlander
16 hrs ago
#32
That is not true - gender affirming surgeries are performed on minors
HereForTheParty
13 hrs ago
#61
"There are no doctors anywhere that perform gender affirming surgery on minors."
HereForTheParty
13 hrs ago
#63
The vast, vast majority of these surgeries are performed on cis teens. They're chest/breast reductions.
WhiskeyGrinder
12 hrs ago
#67
Any surgery on any minor requires the consent of parents or legal guardians already . . .
markpkessinger
15 hrs ago
#39
Okay, so you've named the ONE legal exception regarding consent to surgery for minors . . .
markpkessinger
13 hrs ago
#66
Abortion isn't surgery and in some states minors are required to get parental consent.
WhiskeyGrinder
12 hrs ago
#68
An excellent post equating trans rights to reproductive rights devolves into a RW-framed shouting match??
LearnedHand
16 hrs ago
#24
seeing so-called progressives fall for such blatant rightwing trash is very disturbing indeed
Skittles
16 hrs ago
#30
Tell that to the trans people here who feel like they're being blamed
BootOutTheGoons
14 hrs ago
#47
AOC is showing why she's the new generation of progressive Democratic leaders we need to lead us forward.
InAbLuEsTaTe
6 hrs ago
#79
I think the idea was to ignore it hoping that the messaging would fall flat for some demographics
Ilikepurple
14 hrs ago
#55
I think this is a good response, but how does that apply to the trans immigrant prisoner issue?
Ilikepurple
4 hrs ago
#86
For me it's the dismissive way this is often framed as "Kamala lost because of "the trans thing"."
meadowlander
14 hrs ago
#52
taxpayers don't fund fertility treatments, abortion, or even obesity, from what I am aware
iemanja
14 hrs ago
#54
Military personnel can access Ozempic, gastric bypass surgery, Viagra, and some fertility treaments.
meadowlander
13 hrs ago
#60