BCtriguy1 wrote:
spockman wrote:
DarkSpeedWorks wrote:
Interesting article. Almost makes mincemeat of people with black and white positions on all of this. But maybe Mr Blakeman from Nassau Co. NY will swoop in and save the day. Federal appeals court blocks West Virginia from enforcing anti-trans sports ban against 13-year-old girl
https://www.cnn.com/...ports-ban/index.html
This person is a small group which unfortunately is getting bigger. Given that desisting is the commonest trajectory extending puberty blocking drugs if fraught with problems. The tendency in Canada at present is to not question any adolescent who thinks they are not cis gender and get on with puberty blocking drugs and or hormones. In many cases one is affirming thoughts that likely will go away and not giving the child the chance to identify with their biological sex. If one even questions this approach one is labelled "trans-phobic".
Sensible countries like Finland and Sweden are either banning puberty blocks or restricting to exceptional cases
It is interesting to see Nordic countries moving away from hormone and surgical intervention and towards a therapy based approach in minors.
They didn't move away from surgical intervention on minors as it was already not being done. Contrary to what the right-wing politicians may promote surgical intervention on minors is extremely rare.
Edit: Earlier today Sweden passed a law making it easier for trans minors to surgically transaction, lowering the age from 18 to 16.
Sweden passes law lowering age to change legal gender from 18 to 16 (bbc.com)
None of these countries have put in place the extreme restrictions that some U.S. state have.