New Zealand halts new puberty blockers for young transgender people : lgbtq

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Trans kids shouldn't be on puberty blockers at all. They should be given full hormone therapy at the same age their peers undergo puberty so they can have a normal development. Puberty blockers were meant to be the peace treaty. They were meant to be a compromise to hyperventilating cis people. And then they just went and demonized the compromise. I'm done.

Know a trans kid? It's your moral obligation to get them access to full hrt. Order it off the Internet and give it to them. It is your moral obligation to disobey evil and unjust laws. These laws have no more moral legitimacy than the Nazi anti-Jew laws. Anyone who respects and follows them is damned.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I agree they should be allowed puberty like everybody else, but puberty blockers of themselves aren't something bad. The bad thing is considering puberty blockers a full treatment.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They are a bad thing though. Not because of the horseshit FUD reasons transphobes say, but they are a bad thing. They're a necessary evil at best. Ideally every trans kid would go through puberty at the same age as their peers. Sometimes people aren't sure of themselves and need some additional time to think things through, but in an ideal world, people would figure this stuff out long before puberty even starts. Puberty blockers are a necessary evil, but in an ideal world, no one would be on them except kids who get very early precocious puberties.

Trans kids having to start puberty at 16, 17, or 18 is not a good outcome. Not when they're now years behind their peers developmentally. A trans girl should be able to get her first bra at the same age her cis female classmates do. A trans boy shouldn't have to go through the awkwardness of learning how to shave while in college. Trans kids should be able to have all the normal developmental experiences cis kids have, at the ages everyone else gets to. Today, sometimes puberty blockers cannot be avoided, but in an ideal world, puberty blockers would have no use at all in gender-affirming care.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago

I agree in an ideal world that would be the case, and i too believe it's worth working toward that ideal world. But unfortunately we are not there yet, hence my comment on puberty blockers themselves aren't a bad thing. I don't mind you seeing them a necessary evil, but i myself consider them more a necessary.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You're not wrong, but there's no longer any reason to even try and appease these people

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

Doesnt look that way :(

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 months ago

Agree completely with everything you said

[+] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am so disappointed, I would have expected more from NZ - I wonder how this came to be?

[–] lucille@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 months ago

I think the root cause is probably the current NZ government trying to get reelected. They seem to be starting up their campaigning for next year's election and they can't use their previous platform as it would spark discussions that they don't want to talk about (e.g. the economy and the bootcamps).

It doesn't help that some media outlets in NZ have been trying to politicize trans people more recently and I think the government saw an opportunity to include it in their campaigning.

[+] Gwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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