Originally posted by Rage.Of.Olympus
The issue here, is that the checks and balances are broken. Because of social pressure, if a professional, tries to dissuade someone from going down this path immediately, or points to some alternatives, they could be potentially viewed as a biggot. Some, are so afraid, they just encourage it. And some have completely drank the koolaid.Filling out paperwork and jumping through hoops to some extent is technically a long process. But a "long process" doesn't mean it is a useful check. The length of the process is irrelevant. Acknowledgement of the potential causes and careful treatment is the issue.
A process shouldn't be long, it should be f*cking effective. This seems pretty reasonable. If I went on TV and pointed this out, I'd be called a biggot by some (A conservative hero by others), and the conversation would not even be entertained in the major media outlets.
Do you see the underlying issue? People are dumb af. Kids even more. Kids eat Tidepods. They are dumb AF, and with social media, they are almost hive-mind in their ability to be influenced. This should be acknowledged and addressed. As we are an affluent society, and the rate of mental illness and unhappiness skyrockets, people will turn to many things they would not normally turn to.
I don't personally know how common or rare that is and while I'm sure it happens, the professional who tells a certain someone "yeah, in my professional opinion you shouldn't go through with it, as I don't think you're ready." and they received backlash, gut instinct tells me it's probably not common.
Trans people tend to take years and years to transition, it's generally a slow process so by the time they get on beyond the point of no return, it's more likely that they're sure that the person they feel inside isn't the person/body they were born with.
As far as children, I don't know of any cases were children were giving hormone therapy and/or surgery to transition into a different sex due to transgenderism. The cases seem to be due to medical issues, eg like a hermaphrodite where it's decided where this person leans more towards and that sex is aimed for. If this actually happened though, the transgender process of a child; that is wrong. Let them do so when they're adults.
If you have Netflix, watch a documentary called Transformer (2017), it's about a man who did almost everything in his life to be 'the alpha male' so to speak, competitive body builder, competitive power-lifter, joined the Marines, had a wife and kids, despite knowing from a very early age that he always felt he was a woman; needed to be a woman and was never really happy as a man despite decades of pushing his inner feelings down and trying to fit in with the body he was born into.