The stakes are too high
Nailed it.
1/ What turns a child into an adult? Puberty. It follows that if a 10 year old is given puberty blockers & 8 years later, legally an adult, decides to take cross – sex hormones, having missed this crucial stage in human development, is this really the consent of an adult?
— Allison Bailey (@BluskyeAllison) December 4, 2020
3/ This is why PBs in gender dysphoria are *completely* different to PBs for precocious puberty. A 7 yr old taking PBs to stop an early puberty will be on them for a short time before experiencing full puberty. A GD child on PBs will not & will never complete normal development.
— Allison Bailey (@BluskyeAllison) December 4, 2020
5/ Those orgs that are blithely ignoring the Bell v Tavistock ruling, from a court that considered evidence from around the world, including from WPATH & the Endocrine Society & are saying that they know better & chanting slogans, are truly disgracing themselves & their orgs.
— Allison Bailey (@BluskyeAllison) December 4, 2020
7/ That’s why we need a public inquiry that examines what happened at the Tavistock & what is happening with LGBTQ orgs & child safeguarding. We need a moratorium on their funding & influence. The stakes are too high. We are either a country of laws or empty ideologies.
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— Allison Bailey (@BluskyeAllison) December 4, 2020
Well said.
This is perfect. I hope it is published somewhere that people who don’t have Twitter accounts, or have missed this, will be able to read it. Too bad that the child-abuse lobby will just send threats and slogans in response, as per usual.
Oh good, someone has put the ideas I’ve been wrestling with into coherent words. If you “pause” a child’s development at a stage where they are deeply unhappy and convinced that they really ought to be the other sex… they remain the same person. What an utterly cruel thing to do to a child. It does rather look like the most effective treatment for gender dysphoria is… undergoing puberty. Oh, the irony.
(Are there any sources at all about what happens when someone takes puberty blockers before or at the onset of puberty, and stops taking them at an age where it should rightfully be over? I only found out from a recent article about Keira Bell that she experienced all the joys of the menopause while on PBs – hardly that happy, carefree state of pre-pubescent reasoning that advocates of PBs keep promising us.)
Catwhisperer #3, emphasis mine:
Know “orgasm” when you read that the effects of “puberty blockers” on “sexual function” are “unknown”.
Dave Ricks – Ugh, this is why the adults (not to mention, medical experts) need to damn well act like adults. You confront a child with the concept of sex, and they pretty universally go “EWWW!”. There is no way they can understand what they will miss out on if they go down the path of full medical transition. Compare this with the experience of actual grown women seeking sterilization because they are sure they don’t want more / any children and are patronized by doctors and told they might change their minds / it wouldn’t be fair on their husbands.