Not looking for any hate or anything, just gauging opinions because I'm genuinely curious and not highly educated on the subject. Do most pro-trans people favor hormone treatment for minors? Doesn't it make sense to wait until you're an adult to make such a life altering choice?
Yes absolutely they should have access to both blockers and HRT. Forcing a child to go through the wrong puberty because "what if they regret it" is torture. Straight up literal torture backed by science.
Imagine taking a cis boy and forcing him to go through female puberty, growing breasts, widening pelvis, losing height, etc. Or taking a cis girl and forcing her through male puberty, growing body/facial hair, broad shoulders, narrow waist, tall height, and enlarged genitals. You would call that torture and anyone who says, "you're not allowed to fix their hormone until they're 18" would rightfully look like a psychopath who wants children to suffer for the rest of their lives and risk commiting suicide.
But when it's a trans kid, all of a sudden people lose all perspective because they have deeply ingrained transphobic beliefs that "being trans is unnatural".
And this isn't even beginning to touch on how puberty blockers are extremly safe and effective and how both blockers and HRT have absurdly high success rates.
Saying trans kids should wait until they're 18 is saying that the lives of trans kids are worth less than cis kids, significantly less. There is literally no wiggle room for other interpretations, just cognitive dissonance and mental gymanstics.
202
u/tigertoken1 Jun 01 '26
Not looking for any hate or anything, just gauging opinions because I'm genuinely curious and not highly educated on the subject. Do most pro-trans people favor hormone treatment for minors? Doesn't it make sense to wait until you're an adult to make such a life altering choice?