A mum posts this on rainbow reddit.
There follows a series of responses telling her that she needs to start him on puberty blockers. Most of them tell her that these are reversible. They have no consequences. They just allow a “pause”. This is simply not true. Kids put on puberty blockers have at least a 98% chance of continuing to cross sex hormones. It’s almost as if blocking puberty locks in the gender identity issues, which a natural puberty will resolve in the vast, vast, majority of cases.
This one advises her that a child can know they are “trans” aged 4. Claimed he felt the same. Puberty blockers are not irreversible. Deprived of testosterone this boy will end up with stunted penile development and a host of unknown side effects. This will likely impact brain maturation. Bear in mind pubertal development, on the brain, is estimated to be an on-going process, up to age 25. Those doctors who are blocking testosterone for males under the age of 25 cannot possibly know the long term consequences.
The introduction of puberty blocking originated with the Dutch protocol. An endocrinologist had experimented by blocking the puberty of a natal female. This then became accepted practice. Then their research showed 98% continued onto cross-sex hormones. This is current practice, in the U.K, for children as young as 10. These children will be sterile adults. Trans-activists will argue the high rates of persistence, on a medical trajectory indicate the “right” children have been identified. Before we normalised a medical pathway studies showed most of these kids grew out of gender identity issues and turned out to be, simply, gay males or lesbians.
Here’s Professor Eric Vilain sounding the alarm about the new Gay Conversion Therapy.
This is why it is so dangerous to refer to LGBT issues. One of these letters is not like the other ones. The forced-teaming with Transgender Ideology has been a disaster for a movement set up to protect those with a homosexual or bisexual orientation. Unfortunately therapists who work in this are likely to follow the “affirmative model” and they will have been trained to accept this child as “transgender”.
There are a lot of adult transitioners who use these confused children to further their own agendas. Sometimes it is to distract from their own, sexual, motives for transition. Children provide a faux patina of innocence that cannot be associated with adult paraphilia, such as autogynephilia. For others it is retrospective wish fulfilment because they themselves failed to eradicate all signs of maleness.
This response is in a similar vein. Here the respondent has decided to refer to this boy, who he has never met, as “your daughter”. This makes nonsense of any talk about waiting for an evaluation.
Here the mum is recommended an awful strategy which sounds a lot like grooming.
A hectoring tone is not unusual. Colluding with a social transition is not a neutral act. Foreclosing options for an 11 year old is not developmentally appropriate.
Red flags.
At last we get a dissenting voice. The mum in question claims to be exploring options but she has clearly made some assumptions about her sons future. Elsewhere she claims her son has not been exposed to any information that “transitioning” is even an option. Yet, she says he has asked her about his he/him pronouns. There are red flags all over the place.
I found this post on the reddit forum for detransitioners. It had been reposted with this comment, by a detransitioned male. He is not wrong. Everything about this ideology is regressive and embeds the most sexist assumptions about females and is deeply homophobic.
You can read more about Puberty Blockers on my blog.