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Actually, I think we are nowhere close to being in alignment based on your comments. I don't think that teenagers should make irreversible decisions to their bodies based on what's cool and trendy. Yes, I think that's what's going on here in an attempt to counter the pervasive mental illness that is so common among teenage girls. Allowing them to lop their **** off and take testosterone which will render them infertile and without the ability to ever experience (another) an orgasm is something I could never agree to or think is appropriate. Again, this is a demographic that's never experienced body dysmorphia before--why are they suddenly interested? It comes down to teenage girls acting in cycle (think anorexia, cutting etc not menstrual) and also having depression and anxiety in far larger proportion than is present elsewhere.My guess is that our opinions on how teens should be treated by medical professionals and the criteria and steps to be taken, etc. are not all that far apart. Maybe our lines on when some treatments should start are different, but we'd agree on the steps up to there. I think where we disagree is on to the degree that what we think should happen does actually happen. What is the norm and what is the exception. And I guess whether the norm is 70-30 or 95-5 or whatever.No. Actually, treating "body dysmorphic" teenagers as the norm when they've never really existed before and should be treated as the exception is a fault of the medical profession and their parents. The medical profession has a vested interest in encouraging these teens as they stand to gain millions in fees and my personal experience is that some (not all) parents use their children's mental anguish and desire to transition as bragging rights in their social circle--yes, that's beyond disgusting. Don't get me wrong--some parents of trans kids have done their best to understand their kids but many haven't and those parents are guilty of malpractice IMO.
And I have nothing but hatred for the "medical professionals" who are simply affirming the teen's body dysmorphia self-diagnosis without doing any work to ensure that the teens actually are suffering from the affliction. They need to be better.