I’m afraid you underestimate how stubborn youngsters are, and how convinced of their own invincibility. Add to that the social media echo chamber, and it’s a fairly lost cause. I tried to have this conversation with a young trans person, but I think it all fell on deaf ears. He told me he was aware of the side effects, and went ahead wit…
I’m afraid you underestimate how stubborn youngsters are, and how convinced of their own invincibility. Add to that the social media echo chamber, and it’s a fairly lost cause. I tried to have this conversation with a young trans person, but I think it all fell on deaf ears. He told me he was aware of the side effects, and went ahead with the hormones.
What is needed to move the needle is trans youth to come out in droves on TikTok talking about the negative health outcomes they’ve experienced from hormones and surgery.
Those will hopefully stop the surgeons from wanting to be in this game. But the hormone taking, that will only be stopped by kids telling kids hard cold truths. For example, that male pattern baldness looks really bad on a 20 year old girl. Or that “bottom growth” is not a small penis, but an enlarged clitoris that rubs so painfully on clothing that you can’t wear tight jeans anymore.
I’m afraid you underestimate how stubborn youngsters are, and how convinced of their own invincibility. Add to that the social media echo chamber, and it’s a fairly lost cause. I tried to have this conversation with a young trans person, but I think it all fell on deaf ears. He told me he was aware of the side effects, and went ahead with the hormones.
What is needed to move the needle is trans youth to come out in droves on TikTok talking about the negative health outcomes they’ve experienced from hormones and surgery.
Widely publicized winning lawsuits brought about by Detransitioners and parents would be better.
Those will hopefully stop the surgeons from wanting to be in this game. But the hormone taking, that will only be stopped by kids telling kids hard cold truths. For example, that male pattern baldness looks really bad on a 20 year old girl. Or that “bottom growth” is not a small penis, but an enlarged clitoris that rubs so painfully on clothing that you can’t wear tight jeans anymore.
That doesn't even seem to work when Detransitioners tell them.