Sabresfansince1980 wrote:
NYI-
It might be a terrible question, but it was an honest one. You're right though...it "depends". When a child delays their natural physical development, that is a non-reversable cog in the machine. Sure, hormone therapy can be stopped and kids can "go back", but once you alter development...it's altered. Then to eventually decide to a sex change means that you never gave your biological sex and gender a real chance, just like the other side of the argument says you're not giving the gender change a real chance after puberty.
Saying that someone's straight/gay status can depend on puberty allows that maybe deciding on a sex change prior to puberty might not bew the best course.
That's like suggesting that it's inappropriate for a gay person to be gay without trying to be straight first. Hey, they should give being straight a real chance, so you should just try it. I don't think that makes any sense. This is how these people naturally feel. It's (usually) not some phase that people go through, and anyone that succeeds in going through with this process almost assuredly has a gender identity disorder. To say that they shouldn't go through a procedure so that they can feel the way they naturally feel just so they can give their "real" sex a chance doesn't seem fair to the child at all. So, they should be forced to live in a body they hate, just so they can give their "real" sex real chance?
And to that, 1980... sometimes, they do. In some cases, yes they use hormone blockers and then choose to go through with hormone replacement. In other cases, a child will choose to wait til adulthood and have surgery instead. It all depends. I don't really understand why someone should HAVE to choose the latter, though. It's their life and their choice, right? Shouldn't it be up to the family and the child, not up to the rest of us?