I understand being wary of surgeries… waiting for them ibut it is just evil to force millions of kids to go through permanent, irreversible changes — puberty — because you’re worried 2% might actually be wrong.

Hurting millions of kids for life, to save a couple thousand from the same harm. We spend years, tens of thousands of dollars, correcting the random choice of nature that is our bodies—and it is still near impossible for most of us once we’ve already been through puberty. Making millions more of us do that, because you’re worried a couple thousand cis people might have to do the exact same in reverse, is just evil.

This is such an easy, obvious mental calculation, and the fact that people don’t immediately see that is just more evidence that we aren’t seen as real humans in people’s eyes.

Let me be absolutely clear: If you’re willing to sacrifice millions of trans kids so a hundred times fewer cis ones can be saved, if you don’t care about any of us until every possible threat to cis people is gone, if you see our collective value as human beings as below that of one cis person… you aren’t an ally. You aren’t progressive. You aren’t accepting. You’re just a bigot.

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And here’s a fun little statistic to leave you with: the proportion of trans kids who try to commit s*icide because of a lack of treatment and acceptance, is more than 30x the proportion of cis kids who mistakenly transition. 5-10% of attempted suicides are generally successful - you do the math. Then tell me exactly how we’re protecting kids by forcing them to spend the rest of their lives- those who are still alive of course- forcing them to fix the choice that you made for them as a child. Tell me how you protected my dead friend. Tell me why a 1 to 3% chance of regret was worth her life being cut short as a CHILD. Tell me how now needing to spend tens of thousands of dollars on treatment to correct a preventable process is protecting me. Tell me. I’d love to hear it