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u/comics-ModTeam 2d ago

All transphobes will be banned. No transphobes will be unbanned.

I will sort modmail by the banned folder, select all and archive all without reading them.

This is a line we do not allow you to cross.

While I am here I should soapbox a little about how my personal pet peeve is the "performative ally". Someone who wants the medal, who needs to be called tolerant, but who refuses to do the work.

Someone who wants to be thought of as a nice person but who still wants to make that genocidal comment about how "there are no trans kids" or how "we shouldn't let medical professionals decide what treatment children are allowed to get, that decision is up to layman bigots".

No. If you post transphobic language then I will ban you. Even if you start your sentence with "I am an ally, but.."

Because you are worse than an open bigot.

You want the accolades.

You do not want to do the work or give the support.

To be very clear:

  • Gender identity develops around the ages of three to five.

  • What medical treatment a child can have is between them, their parents and the medical professionals treating them. You do not get to have a say in this.

  • Despite the endless lies from team TERF, puberty blockers are safe, reversible and have less lasting side-effects than giving no treatment would have. Which is the salient criterion. You do not get to say: "Oh no, cancer treatment causes the child to lose hair and become nauseous! It should be outlawed for children!" Not your decision to make, you are neither a doctor, a psychiatrist, that child or their parent.

Transitioning saves lives. Transitioning earlier means being able to transition more successfully, which is the actual reason team TERF wants to forbid it. They do not want to see people transition successfully at all.

Trans rights are human rights.

This subreddit supports our LGBTQ+ siblings.

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u/TheRealLarkas 2d ago

That is something I always wondered, but never actually knew about. Puberty blockers simply BLOCK puberty, not CANCEL it, right? Which means that suspending its intake would simply allow it to happen anyways, even if at an older age - similar to what happens when cis women take steroids, or when trans men transition. It’s literally something that can be reversed. It makes no rational sense to stand against its availability in good faith.

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u/PoodlePopXX 2d ago

Yes and they also use puberty blockers for young kids who start puberty too early too. They’re not just used for transitioning.

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u/conancat 2d ago

Exactly, cis kids have been using and are still using puberty blockers for literal decades now and nobody bats an eye. The same treatment given to trans kids and everyone loses their minds