Science Supports Trans People - Here is why

Value judgement is not appropriate in this circumstance. Exactly the same argument were and still are been used to oppress gay youths.

.. you assume I would force anything down their throats. That would be a very wrong assumption.

it is my base principle of parenting to give my children enough information for them to make their own informed decision appropriate to their age. That means all subjects.

That makes no sense. The post you replied to you is absolutely nothing to do with forcing anything.

The science of the male and female brain?

Where there are 3 or 4 in a group of friends coming out as trans, do you think it's possible that social contagion is happening (youtube, reddit, tiktok,snapchat) and how would you treat all children would all be given puberty blockers? Do you think circumstance or geography should dictate whether elective mastectomies are carried out on perfectly healthy girls?

How can child A a girl who likes playing with boys and having short hair and really feels like she's a boy and wants to be a boy more than anything at age 6. She persists because once an idea is introduced obsessed over and affirmed it takes root and its affirmed by the local trans charity, GP and parents who don't know what to do but listen to the experts? So she's told she is a girl born in a boys body and now the adults in the room have created a self fulfilling prophecy where a child's brain is in the wrong body and they need to change the body to match the brain or the hormones as you referred to.

Versus child B a girl who likes playing with boys and having short hair and really feels like she's a boy more than anything at age 6. She also obsessed over it but is not affirmed is not told she was born in the wrong body, gender or identity or trans are not mentioned to her instead she is told its OK to play with boys to want short hair to live an authentic life just how she is because you know they are just children, innocent and completely unable to comprehend the implications of the life of a trans man..

I know which approach I'd want for my kids..

I'd never blindly trust any organisation /ideology with my kids lives but that's just me.

Puberty blockers are not given to 6 year olds so your comments are a bit hysterical. I have few problems with a 12 year old agreeing to puberty blockers if they have been consitent in their assertions about their gender since th were a six year old.

What you are indulging in is straw man arguments.

A populist hard right government going after a soft target to rouse up it's dipshit base. Colour me surprised. And yes there will be victims of this decision.

If an honest review is undertaken without interference then nothng will change

Gender reassignment therapy is not the norm, it is the end of a long process with multiple off ramps.

Keep tilting at windmills.

For the review to take place then follow ups would have to happen with all the patients so we could actually learn from the past number of years.

There have been numerous whistle blowers from inside Tavistock who claim that treatment was fast tracked without consideration of alternatives, these employees had serious concerns about how children were being treated in the clinic, how quickly they were put on puberty blockers after the initial consultation, enough to resign from their poitions. They claimed that a culture developed where affirmative care was seen as the most appealing outcome for the clinic led by the top down.

Out of 44 children prescribed puberty blockers 43 went on to cross sex hormones in the only published study from tavistock. I'd certainly want the prescribing of puberty blockers to be a very thorough process with checks and balances I wouldn't want to be seeing whistleblowers claiming the opposite.

There is also an alarming trend of people working within the field, who are in fear of criticizing any aspect out of fear of being labelled "transphobic"...

I believe this has been an issue stateside, also many of the "experts" in this field seem to be ideological driven...

Listen I hope I'm wrong, but I fear in 10 years time we look back and see the damage that has been done, social contagion of gender dysphoria is very controversial I know, but the increases we are seeing in cases is absolutely bonkers...and we are already seeing kids who've transitioned realize it was a mistake and of course plenty of success too...but it's still very early days

It's their sex, not birth sex...sex can't be changed, unless you have figured out a way to alter chromosome's

I disagree, and science does to.

You have a very poor impressing children's ability to understand themselves. You are right in saying we are here to support and guide them, but that doesn't mean we are here to make them fit our expectations of normality.

Once you say ideological cult you abundantly identify yourself as a cultist in your own right.

You stopped discussing the issues and signalled your political tribe.

Gender and biological sex are the issue, if you dont accept that then your not discussing the issue.