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Originally Posted by Withano

I agree with no 'entirely male brain' but when a boy has a typical female brain, and when that can be seen on scanners, and when a parent would deny the child a drug that would stop that female turning into an adult male, its a bit.... wrong? Cruel? Dumb? Outdated? Especially if the child, or teen can verbally express that they know their gender, and this can be backed up.

I'll give your transabled link a read a little later on.. the main theory about that transracial woman is her link to her traumatic childhood.. details are hazy.. but I think her Uncle or father used to make her eat her own vomit, and researchers concluded that she may have wanted to identify as a race that were also poorly treated for that reason. I suppose it could be similar for transabled people? I dont think theres enough history on either topic for anyone to make conclusions.. unlike transgender, thats getting pretty solid now..

Well interestingly enough, there are strong links between transsexual people and autism too. And a LOT of trans people (especially FtM) have been sexually assaulted or raped aswell.

Its all quite fascinating, and I didn't really know anything about any of it until a year or so ago. I just think sticking kids on puberty blockers is really wrong, especially when most kids will grow out of it. When if they are put on blockers, they do NOT grow out of it. And that most who DO grow out of it are just gay as adults. So I do see it as modern day euginics and am quite puzzled how there seems to be such widespread support for it :S Yes it will be stressful for a kids to go through 'the wrong' puberty if it does turn out they were trans all along. It is equally stressful for a kid to reach adulthood and realise that they were just gay all along and now be stuck with a body that mimics the opposite sex and lifelong medical issues

There was a doctor done not long ago for prescribing hormones and such over the internet ffs. There is also an organisation called mermaids, who the NHS send parents of gender questioning kids to. This organisation pressures parents into transitioning their kids by telling them that nearly all trans kids try to kill themselves and so on, and encourage parents to buy offlabel drugs for when the Tavistock is 'taking too long' to treat. Its all a huge ****storm that will come to a head soon.