Posted on Jan 5, 2023
Chloe Cole on Transitioning Kids: “When you’re a kid, you can’t really fathom just how serious...
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Chloe Cole: I’m biologically female, but at the age of 12, I started expressing to my parents and family that I wanted to transition to a boy. And they decided that the best thing to do would be to take me to a therapist to figure out what was going on and how to handle this. And pretty much immediately I was just put on the path of affirmation. And just a matter of months after getting diagnosed with gender dysphoria at 13, I was put on puberty blockers first, and then about a month or so afterward, I was put on testosterone. And a few years later, in my sophomore year of high school, I got a double mastectomy. But I very soon realized my regret in that this wasn’t the right decision. And I stopped transitioning only about a year after that when I was 16, and I’ve been speaking out since.
Chloe Cole on Transitioning Kids: “When you’re a kid, you can’t really fathom just how serious...
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Lt Col Charlie Brown interesting read for sure in now times:
“No matter what I did to myself, no matter what surgery I got, I never would be able to become a man.”
Most children do desist by the time they are an adult. They become comfortable with themselves and their sex. It’s just not something that any kid can consent to.
And oftentimes this desire to transition stems from not really doing anything, not really being as involved in their communities or at school as much as they should. And so because they’re not really doing much, they start to look inward and it makes it so that they’re excessively introspecting.
“No matter what I did to myself, no matter what surgery I got, I never would be able to become a man.”
Most children do desist by the time they are an adult. They become comfortable with themselves and their sex. It’s just not something that any kid can consent to.
And oftentimes this desire to transition stems from not really doing anything, not really being as involved in their communities or at school as much as they should. And so because they’re not really doing much, they start to look inward and it makes it so that they’re excessively introspecting.
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LTC David Brown
Often times going through puberty is difficult and kids often have doubts about their gender etc. telling them that indicates the need to transition is so wrong. These young people are so vulnerable at that point in their life.
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Transitioning as an adult? That's your business and my opinion and others really don't matter. Allowing children to decide? Completely different situation.
There have been NUMEROUS peer reviewed studies (in this case, I won't bother to footnote my work as I usually do ... the list is overwhelming) regarding the mental capacity of children to formulate long-term consideration for their decisions or control their reactions. The majority of studies center around the age of 16 for cognitive development reaching adulthood (i.e., the basic cognitive processes supporting the ability to reason logically) but that the psychosocial maturity (the capacity to exercise self-restraint, especially in emotional contexts) doesn't mature until several years later.
“As a former juvenile court judge and a parent of three young adult children, I have seen firsthand what adolescent brain research has confirmed: children do not have the same capacity as adults to control their reactions, think through the long-term consequences of their behaviors or avoid pressure from peers and adults. We know that most children grow out of any propensity for illegality by the time they reach their late 20s. Accordingly, we do not need lengthy sentences such as life (with or without parole) to protect public safety.”— Gail Garinger, Child Advocate for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in response to What’s Justice for Kids Who Kill?
Obviously the above was responding to an article about children who commit murder ... a vocal group says that they don't have the wherewithal to properly formulate their actions and should not be treated as adults because of it. However, many of this group are the same that says children should be trusted in making life altering decisions regarding gender transitioning. Which is it? You can't be a hypocrite and say that they have the requisite capacity as an adult to decide on one issue but don't have it in another case.
Again - adult? Your choice. Child? There's many, many, MANY reasons we don't hold children to the same legal and emotional standard we expect of an adult.
There have been NUMEROUS peer reviewed studies (in this case, I won't bother to footnote my work as I usually do ... the list is overwhelming) regarding the mental capacity of children to formulate long-term consideration for their decisions or control their reactions. The majority of studies center around the age of 16 for cognitive development reaching adulthood (i.e., the basic cognitive processes supporting the ability to reason logically) but that the psychosocial maturity (the capacity to exercise self-restraint, especially in emotional contexts) doesn't mature until several years later.
“As a former juvenile court judge and a parent of three young adult children, I have seen firsthand what adolescent brain research has confirmed: children do not have the same capacity as adults to control their reactions, think through the long-term consequences of their behaviors or avoid pressure from peers and adults. We know that most children grow out of any propensity for illegality by the time they reach their late 20s. Accordingly, we do not need lengthy sentences such as life (with or without parole) to protect public safety.”— Gail Garinger, Child Advocate for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in response to What’s Justice for Kids Who Kill?
Obviously the above was responding to an article about children who commit murder ... a vocal group says that they don't have the wherewithal to properly formulate their actions and should not be treated as adults because of it. However, many of this group are the same that says children should be trusted in making life altering decisions regarding gender transitioning. Which is it? You can't be a hypocrite and say that they have the requisite capacity as an adult to decide on one issue but don't have it in another case.
Again - adult? Your choice. Child? There's many, many, MANY reasons we don't hold children to the same legal and emotional standard we expect of an adult.
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Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen
Eighteen would seem to be the better age choice to study. Totally agree on their choice and up to nobody else. IMO there has been too much emphasis on allowing children to have their way in all aspects of child rearing. When they haven't been schooled in functioning within a set of rules, rather than always getting their way, the issues we see in todays society are not surprising.
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Amazingly, only three states ban this type of child mutilation, AZ being one. Hopefully resistance to this perversion is being contemplated in other states.
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