Reminder that lemmy is an echo chamber

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    Sex change surgeries on minors aren’t happening. This is a monster under the bed.

    Why do conservatives never talk about the large number of gender affirming surgeries that people do on cis minors? Cisgendered kids are getting breast implants, and it’s kind of a big problem.

    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club
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      Sex change surgeries on minors aren’t happening.

      The protest from the far left against banning it is even stranger in light of this.

      Why do conservatives never talk about the large number of gender affirming surgeries that people do on cis minors? Cisgendered kids are getting breast implants, and it’s kind of a big problem.

      I’ve heard some people talk about this to some degree. Is this happening more often that kids taking hormones or getting sex change operations?

      I wonder if Republicans would be more outraged if there was a concerted marketing or social push for kids to get breast implants lol. The reactionary right wing outrage machine doesn’t care as much about effects as much as what the left is doing or might doing.

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        The protest from the far left against banning it is even stranger in light of this.

        What’s strangest is those protests only exist in propaganda ‘news’ media.

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          That actually isn’t strange. Those people are ideologues, and ideologues are pervasive within the mainstream media.

          Not to say that there aren’t child sex change supporters in the real world, but they probably outnumber the actual amount of parents who are trying to get their kids chopped up.

    • Kaboom@reddthat.comOP
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      Then you shouldn’t have a problem banning stuff that isn’t happening? Just a mild bit of wasted energy.

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        Guns are a problem and they literally kill kids everyday. So you shouldn’t have a problem with REAL solutions right?

        That’s useful energy right?

      • Crackhappy@lemmy.world
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        I would, for sure. My daughter was trans for a few years in high school. I supported her (him at the time) as much as I could. I bought breast binders and new jeans, boots and was as supportive of her choice as I could be. The only thing I put my foot down on was permanent body modification, as she was not capable of making that choice about her body yet and I didn’t feel confident in allowing her to make that choice. So yes, anecdotally and personally, I do not think we should be modifying child bodies before their intellects are mature enough to make life long decisions about themselves. That also includes circumcision.