I don’t care if you don’t believe me. You’re drawing the wrong conclusions because you’re expecting me to be against hormones and blockers. You’re almost using that argument as a strawman.

You are wrong. All I said was children should wait until they’re an adult before undergoing life altering irreversible surgery. Full stop.

The context was the comment chain that at no point mentioned anything but surgery.

If anyone took that to mean I was against all gender affirming care, they made a baseless assumption.

Fair enough. I wasn’t sure since people had the mindset that the number of users moving to Lemmy were enough to take down reddit.

No, you need to not make assumptions. The comment I was responding to was discussing circumcision, and had nothing to do with blockers or hormones. I intentionally only brought up surgery.

Anything else was your assumption.

With the editing tools we have today, I feel like it would be simple to edit that out, but I guess it’s not worth the cost.

Amen. It would be nice to have posts on actual technology instead of business/financial news about technology companies, or what shitty CEOs are doing in their personal lives.

The fediverse is not anywhere near large enough to stabilize those numbers.

I never said I supported the laws blocking access to blockers and hormones. You’re the one who read more into my comment than what was there.

That doesn’t answer my question.

I always love the, “it was about state’s rights,” people.

Yes, you’re absolutely correct. It was about the state’s right to let rich white men own black people.

Yeah, for sure. I’m definitely not against hormones and mental health treatment. It’s just weird that “children shouldn’t be able to just get permanent, life altering surgery,” is a bad take around here.

I guess you also support letting 14 year olds get tattoos?

Nah, he’d do it if there was a legitimate chance of going to prison.

I would love to have an electric smart car for running errands.

Tbh, I think that irreversible sex change surgeries shouldn’t be allowed until the age of 18 (circumcision included). There’s a reason that we don’t let children do a lot of things, and that’s because their brain isn’t developed enough to make informed decisions.

There are a lot of things that I personally thought were a good idea in my teens that I definitely wouldn’t in my mid 30s, and I’m sure that’s true for most people.

I think people misunderstood you.

I took your statement to mean that we should let the South African wildlife kill and eat him.

I don’t think it’ll ever be gotten rid of. At it’s core, pedophilia is a fetish, not functionally different from being into feet. And like some fetishes, it doesn’t mean a person will ever act on it.

I’m sure that many of them hate the fact that they are wired wrong. What really needs to happen is for them to have the ability to seek professional help without worrying about legal repercussions.

It’ll never happen. Either he drags it out long enough that he dies from being a wildly unhealthy geriatric, flees to Russia, or kills himself before he goes.

I’m hoping he strokes out and becomes a locked in vegetable for at least a decade.

This is already a thing at Burning Man

It’s still abhorrent, but if AI generated images prevent an actual child from being abused…

It’s a nuanced topic for sure.