Is there more than one Kataramari game for the Switch? Because while all Katamari games are an interesting experience due to how fucking whack they are lol, the Katamari Reroll didn’t live up to my expectations. My favorite is “We love Katamari”.
Glad that we are in agreement and can talk about this in a civil manner! I would just like to clear up a few things. A lot of people seem to think that when a child transitions they are immediately taken to a hospital where they’re pumped full of drugs and then snip snip.
Stage one: the transition starts as a social one by changing their name, for instance. There’s nothing permanent about changing your name.
Stage two: the next stage is puberty blockers. The criteria for a minor to get puberty blockers prescribed to them are:
-They have to show a long-lasting and intense pattern of gender nonconformity or gender dysphoria
-Have gender dysphoria that began or worsened at the start of puberty
-Any psychological, medical or social problems that could interfere with treatment needs to be addressed.
-Have entered the early stage of puberty
-Be provided informed consent
Puberty blockers temporarily stop puberty from setting in. By taking puberty blockers it keeps the person from undergoing changes that might lead to them undertaking surgeries later in life. And once you stop taking puberty blockers, the puberty kicks in. Nothing permanent about this stage either.
Stage three: Next next is hormone treatment (or HRT). Hormone treatments for transwomen, for example, suppress things like testosterone production and decrease muscle mass/strength. Almost all effects of HRT are reversible, except breast development in transwomen. HRT can cause infertility, but not always, which is why a lot of transwomen first put their sperm in spermbanks, in case they ever want to have children. HRT is only legal for minors if they get parental consent, meet several criteria after having been diagnosed with gender dysphoria for at least 6 months.
Stage four: Surgery. Mastectomies for transmen and penectomies for transwomen. Not legal without parental consent. Even when a minor has parental support for their transition, transition-related surgeries are not typically performed prior to the age of 18. While there are some reports of transgender teens between the ages of 16 and 18 receiving transition-related surgical care, these cases are exceedingly rare and based on the specific medical needs of the teen. Most trans people, counting adults, don’t ever go through gender affirming surgeries, in fact. Only about 30%, and then the satisfaction rate sits at around 99.7% currently.
You mentioned that there are zero outcome studies, but gender affirming surgeries have been a thing for over sixty years! There have been plenty of studies. It’s just the last few years that people have been starting to realize trans people exist, it seems. They’ve actually been around in different cultures around the world for thousands of years.
Sorry for the wall of text, and thanks for the chat. I hope we both can agree that since treatments seem to work and regret rates are low, we can with our current scientific understanding of the matter, along with decades worth of study, that there’s no point in being against them. I don’t think you’re a bad person for being critical and asking questions. I just think you’re misinformed. Have a nice day!
I actually kind of agree with you when you say that young impressionable people should be protected from making life-altering decisions about their bodies in case they end up changing their minds. But the reality is that de-transition rates sits around 1%, and the most cited reasons for de-transitioning seems to be pressure from parents, harassment and discrimination. It seems like when it comes to identifying as trans, people actually seem to be pretty sure of themselves. If the de-transitioning rate all of sudden started SKYROCKETING then we should absolutely be re-thinking things. But as of now, that just isn’t the case.
Edit: the de-transition rate is magnitudes lower than things like knee surgery and heart surgery. Surgeries people generally feel very positively about in terms of helping people. Why can a child get a heart surgery - something that isn’t remotely controversial - to save their life, but not a child getting gender affirmative care to keep them suffering and from killing themselves?
First of all, as a minor you can pretty much get a tattoo anywhere in the US as long as you have parental consent. So, legally, tattoos are not considered worse than “other things”, no. The people up in arms over gender affirming care for youths should also threaten and harass tattoo parlors that allow this horrible, permanent body mutilation to happen to children. Laws should be passed around the country with as much vigor and urgency as with laws against trans people, but they’re not. For some reason. I can’t possibly imagine why.
If your argument is that it’s hypocritical for a parent to refuse to let their child get a tattoo, but they’re okay with them getting gender affirming care, then you’ve missed the mark on that one too. Unlike tattoos, that have no value beyond the aesthetic, gender affirming care actually improve the quality of life for the person, reducing depression and the risk of suicide. It’s considered healthcare. That’s the argument you need to be fighting, not these strawmen ones. But I guess that’s not as easy. If tattoos were as important to a child’s well-being as gender affirming care is, then this comic would be making a perfectly valid point, of course. Come back when that’s the case.
That’s fucking hilarious lol
Oooh that’s so cool! Definitely buying it :D