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Originally Posted by uke_master
Gender affirming care. The vast majority of which is counseling and therapy supporting social transition, a minority of which is hormone therapies, and a fraction of that is surgeries which are very rare for people under 18, and the most common of those are things like facial surgeries, and then top surgeries and a tiny almost vanishing fraction of that is bottom surgeries. Using the word "mutilating" is just being a deliberately provocative with the most grotesque and inflammatory terminology you can come up with, which of course is exactly why you use those words.
If you think every celebrity who has had a boob job - no, better example, every cancer survivor who had a mastectomy or hysterectomy is "mutilating and castrating" themselves well good luck with that.
Its a point I would think is unarguably agreeable between rational persons from both sides of the political spectrum which is in general things like puberty blockers and especially related surgeries are probably in unquestionably a bad idea (although is some instances possibly or probably make sense).
For me tho there is something else intrinsically wrong with the movement to try to validate a trans persons as if they are actually of the sex of the gender they identify as. Gender seems to loose its meaning, and I think the farther people lean left the more they would answer 'SO WHAT, WTF IS WRONG WITH THAT, WHY IS GENDER SO IMPORTANT TO YOU!'...
but in world without defined genders, how is gender dysphoria possible?