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I have a trans kid at 15. Living their best life. Knew the kid from day one (today’s their 15th birthday). Guess what? It’s all their choice, suggestion, etc.

I have a trans kid at 15. Living their best life. Knew the kid from day one (today’s their 15th birthday). Guess what? It’s all their choice, suggestion, etc. While I’d prefer their original name (I mean, I chose that for a reason), everything else is obvious and right in retrospect. Instead of just /watching/ a neighbor, you could /be/ a neighbor and get to know them. You might feel differently about your preconceptions when you actually know the human.

throwawaylaptop 1y ago
I do actually know them. I'm nice as can be and help the family with their cars. But what's being done to that kid is terrible and most likely permanent. I don't think a kid is old enough to know if this stuff should be done to them.
- Ralfp 1y ago
  And so you’ve decided trans kids will be your goto issue in internet discourse? Curious.
  - throwawaylaptop 1y ago
    Only once I realized there's people hurting children that won't let you even talk about it, calling others bigots.
    - Ralfp 1y ago
      See, this is what I was going at above. You are not really concerned about wellbeing of the children. You are just obsessed about this single (manufactured) issue.
      - throwawaylaptop 1y ago
        I use the insane, gross, evil thing they approve of to remind them that while they throw around the bigot word at normal people, they are the true gross evil in the world, but regardless of that, just their non approval of healthy sane normal people makes them the bigots.
        Ralfp 1y ago
        "Every madman thinks all other men mad"
        throwawaylaptop 1y ago
        Oh for sure, I'm the mad Men because I think children shouldn't be given surgery and life-altering hormones based on thoughts they have as children. Your position is so terrible that there's nothing you can say that will make it ever make any kind of sense.
        aaaja 1y ago
        I don't think you'll get anywhere arguing with these people, especially the ones who've bought into this cult to the extent that they've transed their own children. They have to convince themselves they've done the right thing, because the alternative is horrifying.

throwawaylaptop 1y ago

I do actually know them. I'm nice as can be and help the family with their cars. But what's being done to that kid is terrible and most likely permanent. I don't think a kid is old enough to know if this stuff should be done to them.

Ralfp 1y ago
And so you’ve decided trans kids will be your goto issue in internet discourse? Curious.
- throwawaylaptop 1y ago
  Only once I realized there's people hurting children that won't let you even talk about it, calling others bigots.
  - Ralfp 1y ago
    See, this is what I was going at above. You are not really concerned about wellbeing of the children. You are just obsessed about this single (manufactured) issue.
    - throwawaylaptop 1y ago
      I use the insane, gross, evil thing they approve of to remind them that while they throw around the bigot word at normal people, they are the true gross evil in the world, but regardless of that, just their non approval of healthy sane normal people makes them the bigots.
      - Ralfp 1y ago
        "Every madman thinks all other men mad"
        throwawaylaptop 1y ago
        Oh for sure, I'm the mad Men because I think children shouldn't be given surgery and life-altering hormones based on thoughts they have as children. Your position is so terrible that there's nothing you can say that will make it ever make any kind of sense.
        aaaja 1y ago
        I don't think you'll get anywhere arguing with these people, especially the ones who've bought into this cult to the extent that they've transed their own children. They have to convince themselves they've done the right thing, because the alternative is horrifying.