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>>15855656
I appreciate the good faith response.
>I think even you would agree to oppose the idea of giving hormone blockers to children and teens who are gender anomalous
I'm not sure on this. Every instance I see this being discussed, people will link to studies which claim they're ultimately harmless and conclude that this is scaremongering. I haven't delved into the issue in any greater detail though, so I'll remain silent on it for now. I do think we should definitely err on the side of caution when it concerns adolescents, mistakes have been made in some cases, and sometimes ideologues are able to exert undue influence.

As for surgery, 18 sounds good, I wouldn't mind raising it to 21.
>I think you might also agree, although this might be a stretch, that encouraging gender neutral parenting is probably harmful to children being raised that way, because they don’t have the stable norms of masculinity/femininity to guide their development and their expectations about how others ought to treat them.
I actually agree with this. I'm not a gender abolitionist, and though I think we should be conscious and open about how we're shaped by certain arbitrary societal expectations, I don't think it's a good idea to throw the baby out with the bathwater and declare all gendered interactions or perspectives to be fluff.