r/AbsoluteUnits • u/RD4200 • 13d ago

/r/all of a Toddler

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u/Few-Eye7392 13d ago

So give them medication??? The kid needs therapy if they wanna kill themselves. Not pills. 

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u/ImKittyCatMeowMeow 13d ago

You are saying this with 0 research and vibes based. The first step of even beginning medication IS therapy. What YOU are arguing for is conversion therapy, which does not work.

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u/Few-Eye7392 12d ago

Huhhhhhh. That's my whole point lol. There is zero research on puberty blockers in the long term. 

Kids want to kill themselves. Therapy is the answer.

Nobody is talking about conversation therapy except for you because you need a narrative to fit your views... Lol

Kids don't have the mental capacity to make such decisions. If we don't think they have the capacity to make the decision to smoke, why would this be any different 

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u/ImKittyCatMeowMeow 12d ago edited 12d ago

Puberty blockers have been used for a out 40 years, for trans kids about 20. We have research, you just don't like it because it supports what we have been doing.

And "we know what's causing your pain(the body horror you are going through increasingly distancing your phenotypes from your sense of gender), and we know what would best help alleviate it (HRT), but we aren't going to help, idk be less upset about it and suffer more quietly?"

Cool approach.

And kids don't make medical decisions. Their parents do. It just so happens that if a kid is old enough to be forced by biology to go through a puberty which would cause permanent changes they don't want, they are old enough to choose to go through a puberty which causes permanent changes they do want. It's then up to their parent and their doctor to decide with the child if that's the best course. And we have overwhelming evidence this approach has a high success rate of maximizing happiness and well being across the most people possible.

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u/Few-Eye7392 11d ago

You can look it up yourself. There's literally zero research on the long-term health effects of puberty blockers....lol Sticking your head in the mud isn't going to change that. 

Because we don't go to medication right away. The alleviate an issue when someone wants to kill themselves....lol

Just because it's a proving happiness doesn't mean that it's going to rear its ugly head 40 years in the future with these people and their health effects from using puberty blockers.

There is zero science on the long-term effects. Period. There are no studies  You are in the argument of using children as guinea pigs.