Not buying a child certain types of toys is not going to do any serious damage to them, kids throughout human history dealt with not having ANY toys at
all. So a kid not liking his "boy" toys because he feels like a "girl", can just choose not to play with them and live like billions of children who, shocker, weren't traumatically affected by the deprivation at all. Or they can use, you know, their imagination. (Not sure if you had sisters, but mine always stole my GI joes to live with her barbies. Kids don't actually need specific toys, give them a fucking block and they can pretend its a space ship, you know, what kids used to do?)
Hormones, meanwhile--have
severe side effects, even on adults. From stroke, to heart disease. In addition, we literally do not know the long term side effects of delaying puberty and the artificially inducing it. We are one generation 1 still, and we are seeing tons of
issues that may be related. Some of these side effects are severe, and absolutely irreversible--and these are decisions are pushed onto KIDS, Kur (You make it seem like leaving the choice of such a dramatic, life changing procedure to them is a good thing). You're comparing that to a freaking
toy? I suppose these choices must be equivalent for you to ever believe any parent should be able to put their kids through this. If you accepted the radical differences in consequence you'd see it for what it is, a gross violation of medical ethics induced by an insane advocacy group.
Beyond that, I'd love for you to explain to me how dysphoria is not a mental illness. Lets check out the what a mental illness is defined as.
A mental disorder is a clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome or pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with present distress or disability or with a significantly increased risk of suffering death, pain, disability.
If dysphoria does not cause distress and significantly increased risk of suffering, then I have to ask why YOU thought forcing a child to play with a toy that doesn't conform to his gender identity was as bad as chemically castrating him. You believe this disorder causes so much stress, that it is better to do something we'd find a horrific crime in other situations to avert it (The same for any major procedure. You're a nurse, how abhorrent would it be if you saw doctors operating for no reason?)....And yet, despite believing this MASSIVE amount of distress from a
mental condition, you think the person is a "moron" for saying its a mental illness. Why? Do you have a reasonable answer to that, because I'm betting you haven't thought this through and feel a compulsion to say this due to your social environment. Because just your one post (IE non-gender conforming toy causes as much distress as radically altering a child's body permanently vs its not a mental illness) shows an enormous amount of cognitive dissonance, and you seem to be able to skip right past it.
Edit: And if you're worried that this is like when homosexuality was a mental illness? It's not. Homosexuals do not need
medical intervention to alleviate their distress. They can just go fuck a man/woman. Their only distress came from going against social norms, but there was no physical impediment to achieving what they desired mentally. Trams people literally can not achieve what they want without significant medical intervention and alteration and even then have plenty of side effects. If they were left to their own devices, they could not alleviate the distress.
Totally different.
Anyway, on to this zeppelin of a post:
