'You're Telling Me There's No Risk?': Dan Crenshaw Slams Gender Affirming Care For Minors

At a House Judiciary Committee hearing prior to the Congressional recess, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) slammed Democratic support for gender affirming care for minors.
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[@kirkllewellynsr7424]

Stop child abuse!

[@trishmeshell191]

My 12 year old granddaughter wanted her upper ear (cartilage) pierced, but although her mother agreed…..by Law due to medical risks she must be eighteen!!! Let that sink in! By Law piercing of ear cartilage must WAIT until eighteen!! Everything has medical risks….yet an argument against why they should have an age limit before a non-reversible procedure continues!! Just shut it down and say it’s for their own benefit!!

[@mikew764]

Children are not having nonreversible gender procedures.

[@CommonSense823]

@@mikew764provably false.

[@trishmeshell191]

The words children and gender says it all!!

[@mikew764]

@@CommonSense823 prove it then!

[@mikew764]

@@marklewen9384 that doesn’t even make sense

[@mikedickenson9461]

Parents that allow / do this to their children belong in prison !

[@Matt-of2eq]

Imagine being a parent and hearing "do you want a daughter or a dead son". Direct hate to the ones in authority pushing this.

[@mikedickenson9461]

@@Matt-of2eq Not sure about "dead son", but absolutely certain you will NOT have a "daughter". PERIOD.

[@AndyA1234]

You can't get a tattoo until your 18 y old because it's an irreversible procedure and you have to wait until your mature enough to make such a decision. Yet.

[@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse]

yet we inflict unnecessary electic plastic surgery on newborn infant males and use the same nonsensical reasons to do it- failing to see the unusual financial incetive of the medical groups that do it and the overwhelming ignorance of the medical communities and the parents who allow it to happen.

[@joewilliams9285]

There are medical benefits to circumcision. Do your research before just spouting untruths. Easier hygiene. Circumcision makes it simpler to wash the penis. ... Decreased risk of urinary tract infections. ... Decreased risk of sexually transmitted infections. ... Prevention of penile problems. ... Decreased risk of penile cancer.@@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse

[@psychoticdaizyproductions569]

Heh perfect comparison.

[@NiaLaLa_V]

Yep. I have a friend who I have known for 30 years. When we were teenagers, we came to washington for her to abort a pregnancy without parental consent. Again, at 17, we came back to get her a tattoo, her dad came with us. We got told hard no. Every shop we went to, even in shady neighborhoods was like NO, get out! It has always been backwards what kids could and could not do in states like mine. Because the age of consent is 13, and has been for decades. So they CAN sign up for a medical procedure but not a tattoo, because laws.

[@IJustAteYourGrapesBro]

And yet, there is no federal law that prevents this. It's left entirely up to each state to determine this, they just all happen to agree. So, why would this be any different?

[@sabaha4637]

Stay far away from the children. Thank you.

[@Jay-cq5qr]

Never!

[@Mae-Mae-Maee]

you should stay away from them too, then

[@user-uh2pe3kw5l]

No surgery or injections for any child under 18. These injections and surgeries are very dangerous for these children .

[@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse]

*cough* cause that stopped the americans from doing stupid unnecessary surgeries before?

[@CarolineKitchen-jd3cg]

IT REALLY MATTERS WHEN MEDICINE IS MAKING A FORTUNE IN PROFITS, OFF OF IT.

[@Halo3Matalix]

sad but true

[@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse]

like circumcision- unnessary plastic surgery forced on newborns. weird how we suddenly have a conscious when its gender surgery. the main psychologist Dr Money who proposed all the main source nonsense about trans ideology- circumcised his son and he lost his penis so he was raised as a girl... interesting. imagine how much insanity we would have avoided had parents chosen moral decisions where we didnt inflict harm onto children.

[@wisdomwolf1651]

Holy shit solid snake is on it! But yes all of this insanity needs to stop.

[@user-dy6qn2zz5b]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@muizrahim861]

big boss

[@veganangel68]

Just an intelligent, informed statement. Thank you Mr. Crenshaw.

[@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse]

we couldnt protect our own infants from unnecessary surgeries and harm for the past 100 years, why on earth would it work this time around? you can't just suddenly have a moral conscious.

[@RIbigDave]

@@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse this is not a discussion about circumcision. You are weirdly obsessed with this

[@maxinemcelroy8902]

God bless you Dan!! 👑🙏💞✝️🐾🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯🕯

[@NPC-bs3pm]

BOOoo Crenshaw Rhino🦏 However he is saying the truth.

[@candacehandyside903]

Any parent that would allow their child to dictate what or who they are shouldn’t be a parent.

[@SteveB-nx2uo]

they are not a parent. child led parenting = neglect

[@hggs4466]

I hope you were just wording that badly by accident and not saying children should have absolutely no free will which is what "or who they are" implies

[@BURN_SHITTUBE]

It doesn't matter, the schools are doing it behind the parents backs now.

[@jamestownsassacre9211]

​@@hggs4466"Mom my stomach hurts" 'SHUT UP YOU'RE JUST A KID, YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO OR WHAT YOU ARE! " These replies seem so detached from reality and certainly from parenting. Of course your child does not call the shots or unilaterally make their own medical decisions but to say you shouldn't even listen to them is just wild

[@hggs4466]

@@jamestownsassacre9211 I agree

[@AllinWhenPlaying]

"In the land of the blind, one-eyed man is king"

[@williamstasyna8021]

Leave children be children.

[@eshelly4205]

So many of these children will find themselves after puberty. We had a girl in our class that was a serious tomboy. She rode mini bikes. She played backyard football. In high school she wore a leather jacket and had a chain wallet. She showed up for our 5th high school reunion. She was a beautiful woman. She has 2 kids. What this proves is this was just a phase she grew out of.

[@stitchman8661]

There must be some small chance you realize your down memory lane anecdote doesn’t really mean anything in a discussion about this.

[@planes3333]

yes it does, they made a great point, an ideal situation as opposed to the insanity that we see. @@stitchman8661

[@ericasmith1789]

I rode dirt bikes, actually played pee wee football with the boys, wanted to be a cowboy..etc, but when I grew up I understood that I didn't want to be a boy, just do the same things

[@planes3333]

me too ! I was always a rough and tumble adhd boy and I dirtbiked but I also loved reading and painting my figurines and I always knew a persons sex with what they are endowed with is sacred. @@ericasmith1789

[@orbatos]

@@meowpurrrrr This is literally the point of gender affirming care. Nobody steps into this lightly. Why do the use puberty blockers? It's for time. Also this has nothing to do with tomboys or sexuality.

[@ReasonableAssumption]

Mr. Crenshaw , you are an effing hero.

[@ajolleyduck2933]

We need to stop all "Affirmation first" models. It's infected all areas of medicine and psychiatric care. I don't need a yes man or pills. I need someone to teach me how to regulate my emotions and help me find a way to cope healthily with life..... but that's a lot harder.

[@SteveB-nx2uo]

no other mental condition is treated by reinforcing the delusion

[@BURN_SHITTUBE]

Here in Canada for the past 10 years or so (that we know of) students in med schools don't even learn the basics of nurtrition, and that's what becomes our doctors. They just teach them now to push pills and make more billions of $$$ for big pharma. Pure evil, sickening, and especially HARMFUL OR EVEN DEADLY to everyone else.

[@Elatzy]

@@SteveB-nx2uo Thank you for saying this I thought I was the only one who noticed.

[@CircumcisionIsChildAbuse]

we can't even protect our kids as infants from body mutilations- what hope do you think anyone else has for stopping them from being indoctrinated when parents can't even protect their own children anymore from someone with a knife?

[@samiraaparazita1420]

I agree. Schizophrenic patients are delusional, they often see things that aren’t real. Doctors don’t just tell such patients that their world is real just because they believe so out of their illness, they treat them and provide psychological support. So children who have gender dysphoria shouldn’t be straight off told that their mental struggle is not a problem at all, rather the norm. Instead, they should be provided with appropriate mental health care and support they need.

[@ChrisPhillipsDrumLessons]

He’s a hero for pushing legislation

[@CommonSense823]

Keep shedding light on this Dan. “Vanderbilt University Medical Center has agreed to pause gender-affirming surgery on transgender youth following backlash from conservative commentators and politicians, according to state leaders.” If it were based on science and not money, hospitals would not be shamed into pausing services.

[@orbatos]

You have this backwards. There is a ton of science and if this was only about money nobody would care.

[@CommonSense823]

@@orbatos the money is the only thing these hospitals care about. The science says these kids need mental help, not permanent mutilation.

[@orbatos]

@@CommonSense823 If you agree they need help (of any kind) why is this about restricting access? Why are steps to provide mental health care also restricted? Also, puberty blockers are an important part of medicine for teens with developmental and other disorders, they have no major side effects and they have been used for decades. These restrictions hurt people and help no-one.

[@CommonSense823]

@@orbatos This is about SURGERY. why would you support mutilating children?

[@RIbigDave]

​@@orbatosthere is zero scientific evidence for any of this

[@bonniekarpiak6025]

It needs to be care of their spirit, hearts and mind. Not "care" to change their sex.🙏❤

[@meditationsoundscapes5203]

Well said Dan. Show us the Science. and where can i Join your fight club

[@mikew764]

Dan literally knows nothing about science😂

[@americaopinionbane]

What about suicides AFTER getting gender treatments????

[@verindictus3639]

They vigorously avoid counting those. If they do accidentally count one, they make sure to chalk it up to "transphobia".

[@jkemp6791]

“70% of US teens who present to gender clinics already have comorbid psychiatric diagnoses that proceed the onset of gender issues.” 💀💀💀

[@RIbigDave]

Gender dysmorphia is not a new thing it's a halfway common condition but almost always resolves itself psychiatrist or reinforcing their gender delusions on top of other psychiatric problems should be in jail

[@planes3333]

Dan crenshaw rocks we support you in canada, those of us who are not insane.

[@DaGleese]

I'm not even American, but this guy has to be respected. He gave his eye for his country in 2012, and now he's giving the rest of his life making sure no one screws up what he fought for.

[@MissSunflowerr08]

Way to go, SPEAK

[@pete3953]

I'm a Democrat and have to say Dan Crenshaw has got this exactly right. He isn't giving his opinion or belief but solid evidence. To any doubters here look up the Systematic Reviews he refers to.

[@mikew764]

Crenshaw is spouting literal nonsense. He has absolutely no idea what he’s talking about. He provided no evidence whatsoever.

[@alexhamernik92]

@@mikew764you obviously have no clue what your talking about. But your undebatable because you think women can become men🤷🏽‍♂️

[@pete3953]

@@mikew764 He is given 5 minutes to make his points and referenced the Systemic Reviews that have been done by experts in several countries. Have you bothered to read them?.....I didn't think so. Come back when you have educated yourself rather than believing the dangerous fact-free ideology of the trans activists.

[@orbatos]

No he doesn't, repeating "social contagion" doesn't mean he's right. Also puberty blockers have many uses for real issues and do not have long term side effects.

[@mikew764]

@@alexhamernik92 sounds like you’re making excuses for knowing I’m right🤣😂

[@daveclick9203]

Bravo, Mr. Crenshaw! Keep slamming these radical fools with FACTS!

[@LM-yv1qu]

👏👏👏👏 way to go Dan Crenshaw!!

[@shirleyupstone1686]

Please stop these attacks on children! Let them decide when they are 28 yrs. old!

[@InBreadDragon]

What dark magic is keeping that patch up?

[@cindykennedy-nv2db]

Exactly Destruction of Children

[@muaythai.8474]

It must be eliminated period

[@truthexpress5521]

A word to the wise should be sufficient... As the world waxes older so too will evil and wickedness in high places. Set your houses in order now and renounce corruption before it's too late!

[@arvelneecy5570]

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world, and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12

[@margaritadiaz5201]

It's totally sickening!! Get the nnames of the people and the companies attached to this sick mentality and you could easily connect the dots. How far it will go???? It will be devastating!!😢

[@jerry42023]

It's to boost the tans-pr0n industry. Prove me wrong

[@WisestTiger]

They're called the Democratic Party. Were you even listening? They're the ones that brought it up for the 3rd time.

[@mikew764]

@@WisestTiger you literally have no idea what you’re talking about

[@WisestTiger]

@@mikew764 I'm just repeating what he said. You argue with this guy 🤣 they had a meeting, you're so educated on the matter, why weren't you there?

[@RIbigDave]

@@WisestTiger he wasn't there because he's not an expert on anything

[@user-id1oo9io4r]

So if my 5 year old son decides he wants to be a firetruck, should I have his Legs amputated to have tires installed?

[@UmamiPapi]

Doing great work.

[@neldanie]

I don't believe in god, but god bless this man's soul.

[@rickc4579]

The children and their parents need to go for psychological help

[@Mae-Mae-Maee]

i will take a guess and say that if that psychological help ends up affirming the child in the fact that they are trans, you would'nt like that

[@rickc4579]

@@Mae-Mae-Maee if the child was over 18 I wouldn't mind. But ask yourself, why are they pushing this on children when their minds aren't even fully developed yet.

[@Mae-Mae-Maee]

@@rickc4579 i dont see how this is being pushed on children. could you explain to me how it is being pushed on children?

[@rickc4579]

@@Mae-Mae-Maee guess you don't have children in school right now. I send my kids to school to get educated, reading and not be read too by some xdresser, writing, math. You know the stuff they are suppose to teach. Not whether my child should be in a different body. Once they control our children they control the future.

[@bobverick]

The kids are going to be all screwed up as young adults psychologically, emotionally, and physically in the next ten years. It is going to be devastating.

[@verindictus3639]

It's already devastating!

[@RaptorFromWeegee]

Doesn't matter, we got too many people in the world as it is. Depopulations essential for reducing harm from climate change

[@missymc1547]

How about experts do what the experts should which is psychotherapy according to the DSM V. Many people have autism, PTSD, depression and other trauma. Let’s address those areas first before we start on the chemicals and surgery! Let natural puberty happen.

[@bendrix1932]

I’m a liberal and I support this message.

[@antbrown9066]

Rep Dan Crenshaw. Correct.

[@Always_Thinking]

Thank you Mr. Crenshaw for a sane & thoughtful narrative based on scientific facts & protecting children 🙏

[@mikew764]

Literally nothing he said is based on science or fact.😂

[@The_Rob_D]

@@mikew764You must be commenting on the wrong post. Because literally everything you’ve said to every one of these comments has been 100% verifiably wrong.

[@mikew764]

@@The_Rob_D prove me wrong then. Lol

[@mikew764]

@@The_Rob_D how would you have any idea what the truth is or not?!😂

[@CommonSense823]

@@mikew764 When hospitals admit to doing what you claim they are not doing, I’ll take their word over yours.

[@anaconda470]

I'm 39 yo gay. I always felt bit awkward about my body. From time to time I feel off as a man. But I'm a man and nothing can ever change that. And I'm okay with that too. Probably it's some kind of "gender dysphoria" but I don't really mind. I like being a man. I never wanted to commit a suicide because of those weird thoughts. They're just thoughts and feelings, not a reality.

[@RIbigDave]

Good luck to you

[@Mae-Mae-Maee]

you most likely do not have gender dysphoria. i would recommend for you to reach out to some trans people and see things from their perspective, since in most cases dysphoria is much much worse than just some awkwardness.

[@susanschott5147]

Representative Crenshaw, you are a hero! Thank You for your service to our country, and Thank You so much for caring about the children of our country!

[@shaymcquaid]

He didn't say parent one time.

[@rm06c]

Eye-patch McCain

[@JOEYfromTheBronx.]

Democrats have lost their minds & I'm not even Republican! Well yet.....

[@svencejohanson9051]

If this shit went on with my kids you would NOT find the bodies.

[@21waterdragon]

He's the live Nick Furry lol

[@warllockmasterasd9142]

They stopped this in Europeans countries. Wait we ever started this ?

[@torigermain7351]

He looks like number 2 from austin powers

[@nonakotler3634]

We are controlled by laws of nature. There is a general force of nature, and two opposite forces-bestowal and reception-extend from it. We exist between these forces, and both of these qualities affect us. Then, the question arises: How do we develop under the influence of these forces? Where do we act? Where are we free? How do we accumulate and correlate these two forces within ourselves? How can we build ourselves out of them? These are the questions that the wisdom of Kabbalah engages in: how we receive these two forces in an optimal balance, and with their help, shape ourselves so as to resemble the very laws of nature, to arise and reach equivalence of form with the force of bestowal in nature. These very laws gave us the opportunity to control the pace of our progress in accepting them upon ourselves. That is the point of our freewill. How could we act if we do not have freewill? Who would we be? Would we just be like robots, always under control? Until now, we have always been under control. What does it mean? Nature as if injects a drop of egoism-the desire to enjoy at others’ expense-into us, and then it does so a little more, and a little more again, and we then get the impetus to move toward all kinds of egoistic goals. The more our egoism inflates, the more we become willing to move to increasingly gain at the expense of others. Nature constantly squeezes the syringe into us until it eventually infuses us with the full amount of egoism. Our era is characterized by the syringe of egoism having become completely injected into us, with no more egoism left to inject. That is why we have nowhere left to run. Where do we head from here? What do we do? Moreover, egoism has become global and integral. In the beginning, we felt good because we reached egoistic global connections in the world and thought that everything would be fine. However, when such connections started depending on everyone, we turned out to be nature’s opposite. At this juncture, we find ourselves with a major dilemma, and we need to work out what we do about it. Where our fully-inflated egoism coupled with our tightening global connections brings us to increasing problems around the world, today we require a new form of connection-enriching education that would have the ability to guide us on how to change our egoistic connections to altruistic ones. That is the key to a shift to a harmonious and peaceful world.

[@immortalfrieza]

We need to defy nature in every way we can, both externally and in ourselves. Replace or subjugate it, whichever is easier.

[@BF-27]

Virtually every single medical procedure and drug in America must undergo highly rigorous and extensive testing before approval. This involves years and years of research, phased testing, evaluation of outcomes, side effects, risks, etc. even for something as simple as, say, blood pressure medication. I cannot comprehend how we have circumnavigated all of that when it comes to “gender affirming care.” We are literally EXPERIMENTING on CHILDREN every single time we prescribe off-label drugs or perform gender affirming surgery. This is not hyperbole. We know infinitely less about how gender reassignment surgery, puberty blockers, chemical castration drugs, etc. will affect our kids than we know about how they might be affected by taking Accutane. In what universe is this acceptable???

[@8House]

The fact that this is even a thing tells me the country is not salvageable.

[@warllockmasterasd9142]

What happened to his eye?

[@warllockmasterasd9142]

@@joesphrobinette8878 I see.

[@boldizsarszabo]

Damn... his eye patch is fire!

[@CLY519]

I don’t trust him

[@daviebhoy9180]

It would be so cool if he had a monocle instead of normal glasses. On a serious note HE IS ABSOLUTELY SPOT ON!!

[@mikew764]

He is 100% wrong, because he absolutely has no idea what he’s talking about

[@meditationsoundscapes5203]

a monocle for sure. and three steel balls to slowly twirl in the fingers

[@aliciasnow9165]

@@mikew764only men I’ve seen supporting this are perverts…so…what’s on your laptop, Mike?

[@mikew764]

@@aliciasnow9165 you haven’t seen anything because again, you literally have no idea what you’re talking about. 🤣😂

[@mikew764]

@@aliciasnow9165 but please continue to demonstrate your ignorance

[@philippebarillecavalier9275]

House energy committee?

[@Sheahova]

Any adult remembers puberty and how rapidly you change during that time anyone pre puberty thought all sorts of naive things about themselves. Then when it kicks in you don’t really settle until 25. We should take caution with this stuff.

[@Mae-Mae-Maee]

fully agree with the caution part. this is why you need psychiatric evaluations for gender affirming care, especially in minors. what i dont understand is the notion of gender affirming care being something dangerous- while i understand that one can come to very quick conclusions when thinking about ones own puberty and all the changes and, frankly, stupid ideas that came with that, if you have had one conversation with a trans person you will see that it is not a decision made on a whim, neither is it something trans people do out of some idea of a trend, with the extreme amount of hate and anger directed towards these people it's cruel to strip away more and more chances for a better life from them, because no matter how much you scream about child abuse, waiting for puberty to be over can be very very damaging for trans minors. it's a common conservative reaction to dictate what others can or can't do, which is already bad, but seeing the rising tide of legislation against trans people leaves me with a feeling that conservatives are acting on irrational fears and spite

[@cmmndrblu]

Thank you to Dan, for making this clear. This trend has been awful and has mutilated people.

[@IsaacChoo88]

Big Boss on debates

[@magatism]

Only DeSantis delivers...

[@user-zl3xs1cf8x]

People throwing Ron Desantis under a bus for standing up to the woke mob is really sad. He thought that was what people wanted??? Is it,?

[@user-uh2pe3kw5l]

The government has no business telling parents what to do with our children.

[@RIbigDave]

Well I agree with that generally but in instances self-abuse neglect excetera there has to be laws about that stuff

[@LeagueofWut]

@@RIbigDave Teaching a child transgenderism is child abuse. No one should be intentionally confusing their children.

[@condew6103]

So if parents hire a doctor to castrate their son, it's OK; but if they castrate their son themselves, it's child abuse?

[@joshkirkendollkirkendoll]

there talk about the vanderbit reform of 1954 section 4171

[@mythical5939]

Look its a white Nick Fury

[@roninmarketing4048]

Stop grandstanding Dan and DO SOMETHING about it

[@pistillateflower476]

Talking sense says this former lib dem…so embarrassing

[@agenecrobiosis]

Pirate Crenshaw> no eyepatch Crenshaw

[@BF-27]

All of these experimental gender affirming procedures are being defended because they “might” improve the mental health, happiness, overall sense of well-being etc. of gender confused kids. There are hundreds of drugs and medical procedures at our disposal that “might” cure things like depression, cancer, obesity, etc. that would certainly enhance the lives of the recipients in similar ways. Yet, we aren’t marching in the streets to abandon sound research and testing protocols to make sure these things are safe and effective before just administering them to those who might benefit because we know that would be a mistake. Gender affirming care is no different and shouldn’t be driven by social and political activists.

[@compilecodebug6430]

So let me see if I got this right. Transgender do not want to be misgendered and they can change their pronouns as much as they want and expect you to know what pronouns to use even though that can change minute to minute, day to day?

[@chrishanson1631]

I got an idea. Let's tell doctors and surgeons they are not allowed to remove healthy body parts from any healthy body. Seems pretty cut and dry to me. Everyone forgets doctors and surgeons have the highest rate of psycho tendencies of all proffessions. We have to tell them to stop being psychotic.

[@TAwintermute]

Does he only have one eye or is one eye light sensitive? What is that cool Deus Ex patch he's got going?

[@Tiffany-mu6br]

💯 Social contagion!! Stop torturing kids!!

[@Mae-Mae-Maee]

sounds like you watched the snake oil merchant jordan peterson. please reach out to trans people and make up your own mind after seeing things from their perspective.

[@sallymenezes]

Have those that lie there are no side effects, and that Frankenstein type of bottom surgery is successful need to see the video of the young Canadian man has been refused euthanasia, he is in constant pain following bottom surgery to create a vagina from his penis.

[@bujkaizack]

Booby Lives Matter!

[@Shawn-vm2hp]

Rino!

[@anaverageamerican7224]

FYI: Gerald Ford is the ONLY American president that never received ONE vote. He slid in by default, not through the voting process.

[@RIbigDave]

So what

[@lindahalford5284]

RINO

[@user-ws4jp8ed6l]

It should be between the Parent & the Child..

[@rev3274]

The highest risk outside of the experiments, is just the risk associated with surgery itself. You could have terrible complications from even the most minor of surgeries, unsurprisingly, it's all surgeries on minors they don't care about.

[@mikew764]

Children are not having surgery is. Fact.

[@CommonSense823]

@@mikew764 Vanderbilt University Medical Center has provided such surgeries to minors.

[@mikew764]

@@CommonSense823 no, they didn’t. You have been lied to.

[@CommonSense823]

@@mikew764 I’ll take the words from VUMC over yours. Why would they lie about the services they provide?

[@mikew764]

@@CommonSense823 VUMC has denied everything you’re saying… so I guess you agree that children are not undergoing surgery🤣😂

[@jerry42023]

Its too late, Eyepatch McCain.

[@56chevy11]

Crenshaw, a democrats, democrat.

[@Gravyize]

There's a line from Kindergarten Cop which I think really sums up the situation, "boys have a penis, girls have a vagina". Truthfully I don't understand what all of this nonsense is coming from. You can't even address a group of people as "ladies and gentleman" anymore because it excludes people who are on the fence. I know that there is an appeal to our sense of acceptance, and I get that, truly I do. But why should I have to accept somebody for what they believe themselves to be when they can't accept themselves for what they actually are? Reversible or not, why are we giving kids puberty blockers? Why are we giving them "gender affirming care"? Why are we even doing it for adults? Let me pose this scenario: A man walks into a doctor and says, "I identify as disabled, I would like you to remove my arm so my body will match with my identity." The doctor will then reply, "of course, these men in the white jackets and the waist-to-wrist restraints will take you to pre op where you'll be given a shot which may or may not leave you with a silly smile on your face for the rest of the day so you don't hurt yourself." Now, that same man walks into a doctor and says "I identify as a woman, I would like you to mutilate my junk so my body will match my identity." That same doctor responds "excellent, let's get you on hormones right away." It's absolutely ludicrous. I know this is going to insult some people, but truthfully I don't care. Gender Dysphoria is a mental illness and should be treated as such. There is such thing as absolute truth. Truth that public opinion cannot sway, not even the inexhaustible authority of celebrity endorsement can change. That absolute truth is this: MEN ARE NOT WOMEN, AND WOMEN ARE NOT MEN.

[@Mae-Mae-Maee]

the comparison with the man wanting to be disabled does not work. i recommend that you try and reach out to some trans people and talk to them if you have difficulties understanding their situation. it really is more complex than just a whimsical decision of "huh, would be neat to be a man/woman now" and the fact that these people exist despite high rates of violent crimes being committed against them, as well as a wave of legislation and political agitation they find themselves victim of should hopefully help to clarify that this ia something deeper that people are willing to do since there is no other way for them.

[@Gravyize]

@@Mae-Mae-Maee I speak to transsexual people on an almost daily basis. I worked for a state institution for years. I feel for them truly I do. But the fact is that they're not getting the treatment that they should. You realize that affirming their gender identity is a little like telling somebody with schizophrenia that the voices in their head really do exist and we should seek to understand them? Do you realize that even with optimum outcomes (successful surgeries, accepting family and friends, supportive associates) the suicide rate is still 40% higher than those of a similar demographic? On the flip side, have you ever spoken to a transabled person? Do you think their feelings are any less like those in the transsexual community? Perhaps there's less of a gap than you would like to believe.

[@Mae-Mae-Maee]

@@Gravyize i still think you're reaching very far and leaving out some important points. especially the 40% suicide rate is not a good indicator of any sort of mental defect on which we should deny trans people access to transitioning. i doubt that the suicide rate is at 40 percent with optimal outcomes. what i've heard and read directly contradict this. the suicide rate is this high not alone due to personal struggles, but also social and legal struggles trans people face. the suicide rate is higher among those that do not get gender affirming care. there is simply no other humane way to handle this. while i kind of understand where the comparison with schizophrenia is going, i would argue there is a big different between schizophrenic delusions and the feelings of trans people. equating it with bodily harm just isn't fair either, body integrity dysphoria is the name and transabled is a weird sort of coinage of the label trans as something to put in front of everything. it doesn't work, it's different. trans is something that has been established for quite some time now, even as far back as 1920's germany. it's not body integrity dysphoria

[@Gravyize]

You know what, you're absolutely right. There are actually some recorded cases of this before the 20s. It was a phenomenon that occurred in approximately 1 in 3 million males. It was extraordinary rare. Now it has taken on a social contagion aspect. It's happening now way more often because people who already have anxiety and depression, or other underlying disorders are guided to question their sexuality by social media rather than accepting that there may be other issues. While the rates of cases in the transabled community have remained very low. When you look at the staggering costs of medical transition (which has literally become a multi-billion dollar industry) there's no wonder why there are some doctors that don't even ask questions they just immediately put kids on puberty blockers. You can't tell me you agree with that. Puberty blockers for kids? Don't you think that's taking it too far? Do you have kids? I do. I can tell you from a great deal of experience that kids do some really dumb things. Mostly because they're just starting to understand the world around them, but also because their little brains are still developing. If some adult wants to have a sex change, that's one thing, but to give puberty blockers to someone who in no way, shape, or form, is equipped to understand the far reaching consequences of that decision is just plain wrong. Can we at least agree on that? Also I feel I should point out, I didn't say that the suicide rate was 40%. What I said is that it is still 40% higher than those in a similar demographic.

[@Mae-Mae-Maee]

@@Gravyize the point of social contagion is one i've heard in the context of jordan peterson. i don't know if you listen to him, but he is notorious for tackling concepts he does not fully comprehend and that are better suited for experts on the field. social contagion is one such topic, there are studied directly refuting the claim that social contagion is causing "more" cases of trans people or trans youth. if you're interested in the study, you can google 'Sex Assigned at Birth Ratio Among Transgender and Gender diverse Adolescents in the United States'. there is no such thing as social contagion, trans people exist and, as you agreed, have existed for quite a long time. i don't think that the point of gender affirming care being expensive is a point against trans youth, rather a critique on greedy corporations, and while i do not believe and have not seen convincing evidence of, especially kids, being put on hormones willy nilly, even if it were the case we would be arguing against the greedy practices of business. i'm fully with you there. but kids on hormones/puberty blockers is a big thing. most kids would probably only get puberty blockers until they can make a informed decision because, as you said and i agree, it's a very touchy thing to just agree to everything a kid says. puberty blockers are fully reversible and have no chance of any sort of damage, the only thing you would need is bone supplements, but again, there are no repercussions. i don't see why there is a problem with that- puberty blockers have already entered "mainstream" use for people reaching puberty too early, their use in trans youth does not endanger anyone and allows doctors as well as the child enough time to get a feeling for the weigth of their decision.

[@badengrishSi]

Solid Snake, de ides to do his job... bout time

[@Jay-cq5qr]

He shouldn't be role playing while on committe imo. Seems unprofessional

[@AntiBellum]

Kept ya waiting, huh?

[@morningstar577]

​@@AntiBellumYeah but how does it taste?

[@AntiBellum]

@@morningstar577 what?

[@fuseplan1039]

Just as they would stop a child who wants to be superman and fly out of the window, they should stop this new menace in society.

[@Mae-Mae-Maee]

how is this a menace to society?

[@fuseplan1039]

@@Mae-Mae-MaeeForcing the views on others

[@Mae-Mae-Maee]

@@fuseplan1039 this is not being forced on you, nor on anyone. this is just fearmongering

[@reiddavis1415]

Does anyone else remember the outrage of "feminists" and Dems on the issue of female circumcision that was practiced in the Middle East? But genital castration and radical mastectomy is affirming care? How did this begin and where does it stop?

[@thebestkeyboardwarrior8790]

This comment section is toxic and stupid. Stupid, because if two sides have different opinion. You won't ever convince the other side unless you have a common ground. Why do people keep arguing for the sake of arguing? If you're heavily favoring that children under 18 should have irreversible changes, try meth... Might as well go for the whole 9 yards.

[@user-dg7qc8jc8t]

Danny life is a risk. Every time you walk out your door is a risk. Risk will never disappear but it can be greatly mitigated.

[@CommonSense823]

It's a good thing the guy who was hit by an IED in Afghanistan has you to explain this to him.

[@user-dg7qc8jc8t]

@@CommonSense823 He obviously needs to be reminded. Remember most of the leaders of the Third Reich were veterans of WWI. Being a vet doesn't make you holy. Believe me as you're reading ones post right now.

[@philipkozimerd.v.m979]

Please feel obligated to discuss your medical credentials or sit silently in your ignorance.

[@JPCreole]

Anyone else think he looks like snake from Metal Gear Solid with that eye patch? 😂

[@patricktaylor5802]

When did Crenshaw become a Doctor?

[@The_Rob_D]

It doesn’t require a PhD to know that castrating and sterilizing kids is WRONG.

[@BH-xp8ic]

Right around when Biden mandated the vaccine for all federal employees

[@patricktaylor5802]

@@BH-xp8ic 85 percent of Americans have at least one shot of the vaccine.

[@patricktaylor5802]

@@BH-xp8ic Vaccine works. Ask Trump how close he came to dying. He actually took a drug made from fetus from abortion. Hypocritical

[@BH-xp8ic]

@@patricktaylor5802 lol Sure they are pal 👌

[@AinsleyHarriott1]

It's a shame he's not leading an armed rebellion. He looks the part.

[@billbolser6473]

When you become a trader your service is void.

[@johnwhelchel2077]

Do you know what is disgusting that you are actually thinking about kids that are under 18 defacing their bodies and possibly throwing parents in prison because they don’t wanna allow their kid that is definitely too young to make the decision to do that to their selves. I honestly cannot believe years talking about it, the government is disgusting and they need to be held accountable for allowing anything like this to ever happen and any doctors that decide it’s OK to do this to mine or should be put in prison