TotallynotJessica

In effect, almost everyone ends up going through some form of puberty by default. There are temporary effects that can be reversed at any point by the opposite hormones, but many effects are permanent and costly to adjust later. Going through male puberty at default ages makes you grow taller and sprout permanent facial hair, while you don't grow as tall with female puberty and gain breasts which are even harder to remove.

The care for trans minors seeks to delay puberty for a couple years, but this is cannot be done for too long, or the window for certain development is missed. As such, anyone who takes puberty blockers eventually has to go down either path. The consequences are that certain things cannot be reversed, so it's important to get the puberty right the first time whether that be a trans or cisgender one.

With proper therapy and informed consent to discover what the teen truly wants, it is safe and effective at preventing pain for trans kids and giving kids who decide medical transition isn't right for them an appropriate out. A member of my family explored their gender as a minor, but didn't medically transition, so I will not say people don't change their minds. However, that option for people confident in their gender at an early age does save them the horror of watching their body change without being able to stop it.

As far as why it gets made illegal, it is usually not people who are friendly to trans folks doing it. It is usually an effort to eventually ban all trans care, as saying "think of the children" gets people on board. In states like Florida that restricted care for minors, there were less advertised restrictions on adult care that occurred at the same time (preventing medicare from funding it and the like). They put their desire to not see more trans people exist first, and put empirical reality second.

The problem is that our armed forces are specifically structured to prevent civil war, while there aren't strong regional divisions right now. It's an all or nothing where you're either in control or you're not, and that will take a long time to change.

That said, Trump is absolutely destroying the institutional stability of our entire government in a way no one has done before. This won't allow for a civil war under him, but a decade or two down the road might be a different story.

If governors like Gavin Newsom are as sinister in their power grabs as I suspect, there might be an increase in regional divisions that could make battle lines exist. If other empires are smart, they'll encourage ambitious governors and local officials to lay the groundwork for a regionally divided civil war in the future. That'd be how an American civil war can happen; in the aftermath of a dictator like in the century of unrest after Caesar died.

I try to stay consistent about being happy that evil people doing great harm die. Then again, this means I'd feel similarly pleased if certain Democrats got killed, so I wouldn't say I cheer colors.

It has a lot to do with fundamentals of why you believe what you believe. Did you just get lucky and not get taught to reject and scorn people who don't fit your worldview? Would you ever reconsider your spiritual understanding with new information on how the world appears to be, and if so, what would be fundamental and what would not?

On a more practical level, how much would you actually support our happiness? Would you have a problem with supportive parents letting their children use professionally guided medication avoid the pain of a puberty they never wanted? If the medications adults currently use to feel comfortable in our skin are made illegal, would you have a problem with us breaking the law to get it? Would you be ok with it because of our dire need, or would it be similar to how you view illegal immigration?

As if Sam Harris isn't a personally salient cause away from being Jordan Peterson. Dude has the same arrogance and flies in adjacent circles, so he could easily go full fascist grifter if some brainworms issue took hold.

I am a Christian so naturally I don’t agree with it. BUT, I am not like the crazed lunatic Christians that will belittle them, berate them and talk down upon them. Or tell them they are a “perversion of Gods creation” or an abomination. They’re still human. I am human also. Who am I to judge?

I've met Christians who never once denied my identity or acted like accepting me was fundamentally against their faith. I could argue that trans identities are a natural and evolved phenomenon, but you don't seem scientifically inclined. Would anything ever change your mind to recognize us as who we say we are?

then put on the collar and bark!

AI is flawed in the same way our brains are, as they process information in a similarly flawed way.

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I do care because they shouldn't minoritize members of their own family for their gender or orientation. That isn't like some not eating pigs or drawing ash on your face shit, it's oppressive and wrong.

Put on the cat ears then :3

There you go turning a larger socioeconomic issue into a personal one. The current system is designed to prevent anyone from acquiring wealth unless they're both high class and lucky enough to not get wiped out by an injury or disaster. Unless there is major systemic change in the next couple of decades, retirement is only gonna become more exclusive. I shouldn't need to be lucky in life to not have to work until I die.