MystikDan-delion on Nostr: Being a parent and making medical decisions for your child is the heaviest decisions ...

Being a parent and making medical decisions for your child is the heaviest decisions a parent will likely make in their life. It is the job description of a parent to make life and death choices for themselves and their children. The stakes can be high and the cost of being wrong can be devastating to the person and the relationship. And it has been this way since before fire was understood. To the extent we tolerate the government it needs to stay in its lane. The job of raising life that is your progeny is sacred and ancient and core to our species, the state doesn’t have what it takes.

I believe the state shouldn’t be involved one way or the other. I’m not convinced all the kids getting these treatments are necessary, I think there will certainly be cases where they are irreversibly damaged and will have regrets from the procedures. If it were my kid I would be incredibly resistant to any claim of being trans and any treatment that is not reversible regardless of the organ being considered for operation, mostly because I know my kids and I have a lot of concerns about how quickly these treatments have been mainstreamed, and I have problems accepting the hypothesis that this condition is a beautiful example of human diversity but also requires invasive medical treatment. That the condition has a history within several ancient cultures but also requires medical interventions invented only in the last century or decade. *But* likewise there will be cases where the procedure was not performed because of the bans and there will be people that will clearly point to and blame the lack of the procedures for their unhappiness / depression. I don’t see how the state should get between those two outcomes and try to decide for anyone. I have my doubts about the diagnosis and efficacy of treatment but I don’t believe I have the right to tell anyone what they should do in their situation. The state should also not be circumventing the protectiveness of parents by enabling treatments without their permission on vulnerable children etc. The state should leave this to individual families to sort through.