Yes, I am sure that you would deny ALL transgender people meaningful care,
Not true at all. Some people do think that way. I'm fine with legitimate counseling aimed at helping them cope with a mental issue like Gender Dysphoria or less severe gender confusion not amounting to dysphoria. I'm fine with children socially transitioning by wearing whatever clothes they want and being called by whatever nickname they choose, so long as I'm not asked to hide that from parents.
The idea that I have to explain to a grown man why it is wrong to chemically and surgically castrate a child is pretty silly.
but, please, please, please don't pretend it's because you care about the handful of weak creatures like Brockman who are easily manipulated by the Christian right.
This is how hateful the left is. Chloe is a very troubled young woman with a host of mental disorders that the transgenderization community made worse not better. You've provided no evidence that she has been manipulated by the "Christian Right," but her own story proves that she was manipulated by the gender specialists who took advantage of her.
Sadly, those people who did that to Chloe are unlikely to have any consequences at all. Judges, elected or appointed, are highly politicized and would be loathe to be mocked in the media for any ruling against the transgender movement. They still have the money she and the taxpayers paid for her medically unneeded double breast amputation. They will enjoy making more from other vulnerable kids.
Let's be perfectly honest, in your ideal world, Transgender people shouldn't exist at all.
In an ideal world, everyone would be happy with who they are, yes.
I see it as MAYBE the suggested the wrong treatment to fix all the other problems.. that if they fixed her gender identity, all the other problems would resolve.
If they thought that, they should never be allowed near another child in a professional capacity. In studying psychology for my masters in Ed Psych, we heard about the bad old days in which mentally ill people were put in chains. How is it any better for a bunch of profit-motivated adults deciding that the best treatment for an adolescent girl with such a laundry list of mental disorders is to cut off her breasts?
The folks at Transgender Map are only going by what is in her filings, which the rest of you never bothered to read. You just screamed POOR LITTLE CHLOE! when in fact, this person is just screaming for attention to anyone who will give it to her. In ten years, she's going to be coming back telling us all how the Christian Right used her.
Maybe she will, at which time you can make that argument. Meantime, she has all the proof she needs of the transgender profiteers taking advantage of her mental illnesses. A jury will find in her favor, would be my prediction. Then on appeal she will lose due to the highly political nature of upper courts.
This is very sad, because that means that these people will keep doing this to children who scream for attention. You seem to want to make my point that children are not capable of making such life-altering decisions, and should not be legally empowered to do so.
I noticed you forgot to answer my question about a fourteen year old girl who demands sex from adult men. Should they give it to her if she stomps her little feet? If they do is it not their fault because she asked for it?
And proved it, but let's be honest, you'd be happier if these people didn't exist at all.
You did not prove any medical benefits. You claimed mental health benefits. Again, I'd be happier if there were no mental health problems in the world, but some industries thrive on them. You make it more than clear that you wish Chloe did not exist.
Well, there's a bit of a problem with that, in that you can't really find these structures until after the person is dead and you do an autopsy, but you already knew that.
What?
Did you just make that up, or are you really that ignorant about a topic that you brought up?
Male and female brains are, on average, slightly different in structure, although there is tremendous individual variability. Several studies have looked for signs that transgender people have brains more similar to their experienced gender. Spanish investigators—led by psychobiologist Antonio Guillamon of the National Distance Education University in Madrid and neuropsychologist Carme Junqué Plaja of the University of Barcelona—used MRI to examine the brains of 24 female-to-males and 18 male-to-females—both before and after treatment with cross-sex hormones. Their results, published in 2013, showed that even before treatment the brain structures of the trans people were more similar in some respects to the brains of their experienced gender than those of their natal gender. For example, the female-to-male subjects had relatively thin subcortical areas (these areas tend to be thinner in men than in women). Male-to-female subjects tended to have thinner cortical regions in the right hemisphere, which is characteristic of a female brain. (Such differences became more pronounced after treatment.)
Imaging studies and other research suggest that there is a biological basis for transgender identity
www.scientificamerican.com
Seriously, dude. If you don't want to answer the question, just ignore it, or be honest and say you don't want to answer it.
Just admit that their daring to exist at all is what upsets you because it make Baby Jesus cry, and we can put this discussion in the proper phrasing.
You have the Jesus fixation. I never brought him up.
