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New poll finds strong majority opposes gender-affirming care bans for trans minors
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Gender isn't sexuality.
Do you seriously need someone to explain to you that you can make a decision on one thing and not a decision on another.
Abstractly explain how a child can make a decision on what to eat for dinner but not who they want to have sex with.
Alright so I'm happy to expand on this but you first: You have only said gender isn't what I said it is. Go ahead and explain simply what you believe it is and what you perceive it's purpose to be.
Your dinner statement is comparing apples and oranges but sure, I'll bite:
A child hates brussel sprouts. They know this because they have had them and can form an informed decision based on their experiences. The first time at aunt Mary's party they were bad but that was one time. Since then there have been multiple times of eating and disliking this food. They are sure they don't like them. Experience helps form our decisions. I could continue but I trust you understand and can extrapolate from there.
I'm happy to continue this dialogue (on either front) but would like you to actually place your definitions and where you stand on the table first.
Point 1: gender is sexual
Gender is a social construct around behavioural and social traits, sexuality is who one is sexually attracted to, I honestly cannot see how you can correlate the two beyond "this gender is usually heterosexual".
Point 2: children should not make puberty decisions unless they are mature, and to be mature they must go through puberty
If a child is mature enough to go through puberty, then they should be mature enough to make decisions about their puberty.
Why force someone to go through a puberty they hate, and only after they are finished and the changes become irreversible do you allow them to make a decision on how they wish to mature?
I understand this point of view because I used to also hold it, but I'm trying to express to you that forbidding puberty blockers causes the exact same problem, someone uninformed on a subject comes to regret their action (or inaction).