Posted on 06/16/2015 12:12:13 PM PDT by reaganaut1
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It is a transgender moment. President Obama was hailed just for saying the word transgender in his State of the Union speech this year, in a list of people who should not be discriminated against. They are characters in popular television shows. Bruce Jenners transition from male sex symbol to a comely female named Caitlyn has elevated her back to her public profile as a gold-medal decathlete at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
With growing tolerance, the question is no longer whether gender reassignment is an option, but rather, how young should it begin.
While no law prohibits minors from receiving sex-change hormones or even surgery, insurers, both private and public, have generally refused to extend coverage for these procedures to those under 18. In March, New Yorks Medicaid, the nations largest, drew a line at that age, and at 21 for some procedures.
But the number of teenagers going through gender reassignment has been growing amid wider acceptance of transgender identity, more parental comfort with the treatment and the emergence of a number of willing practitioners. Now advocates like Empire State Pride Agenda are fighting for coverage at an earlier age, beginning with hormone blockers at the onset of puberty, saying it is more seamless for a teenage boy to transition to becoming an adult woman, for example, if he does not first become a full-bodied man.
Some of these women are passing, but barely, when they transition at 40 or 50, said Dr. Irene Sills, an endocrinologist who just retired from a busy practice in the Syracuse area treating transgender children, including Kat. At 16 or 17, you are going to have such an easier life with this.
Given that there are no proven biological markers for what is known as gender dysphoria
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Why can’t people just get a nose job and be happy?
Now, with growth hormones that is in cows, chickens and other animals, who knows how it affects growing kids. I’m sure chemicals are screwing growing bodies.
This stuff is very tedious.
“LeBron James wearing a Rachel Dolezal wig”
You just blew my mind. A white woman posing as a black woman trapped in a black man’s body.
They discovered that the female brain completely links up around age 24; and, the male brain takes til 27-28 years old.
An 18 year old cannot fully comprehend what they are doing.
My question, which I also posed at another thread, is: "When did they stop just becoming transvestites when they had this problem?"
Having raised three kids, we noticed that things “clicked” when they got to 25.
Americans shun Muslim genital mutilation, so why embrace and promote this twisted practice?
It is all so confusing.
Changing your mind a few years later when you're an adult might not be so easy.
This whole country is gone mad........except you and I.
And I’m not sure about you. LOL
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