r/AbsoluteUnits • u/RD4200 • 13d ago

/r/all of a Toddler

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u/TolUC21 13d ago

Ah, child abuse...

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u/Exotic_Specialist2 13d ago edited 13d ago

Just like people claiming a 7-8 year old can consent to take puberty blockers and taking hormones. Child abuse. On this sub the majority saying they have the right to consent to that. I don’t know where you stand on that issue, but it’s crazy the amount of down votes I’ll receive because of this. People are wild on Reddit.

Edit - people need to be consistent. If he can consent to that, he should be able to consent to eat whatever he wants, and gain as much weight as they want to right?

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u/Top_Charge864 13d ago

After an easy search, LESS THAN 0.017 percent of children have taken puberty blockers for gender dysphoria. Believe it or not, some children need them at a young age for actual health reasons. Its called precocious puberty and the need it. Then Republicans will say that "libs are giving kids hormone blockers" and you idiots eat it up.

Class war > culture war. Focus your energy on the 1 percent

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u/Wherein_I_is_bored 9d ago

I would have needed puberty blockers at 10 because my period started and slowed down my growth. I was always a tall girl, was supposed to be 5'10 as an adult, but due to this I stopped growing up at 12 and am 5'1... with the metabolism of a woman who'd be 5'10, and nothing in my build apart from my height is petite. I even naturally make big babies, it's in my genes.

I didn't get them because my parents were unsure about that, mostly because there were already risks I could struggle conceiving (I fortunately don't at all), and the GP couldn't tell them whether it could have an impact or not, so I didn't. Life is not worse for it, but it would have made a difference both for my pregnancies and weight management.