Detransitioners vs the Progressive Machine: A Legal and Cultural Time Bomb

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Re: Detransitioners vs the Progressive Machine: A Legal and Cultural Time Bomb

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huckelberry wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 4:20 pm
canpakes wrote:
Sat Oct 11, 2025 10:15 pm


All true.

And it’s useful to recognize that being born a boy or a girl isn’t always as cut and dry as we want to believe that it is, as Jackie Blankenship’s situation demonstrates:

https://pridesource.com/article/jackie- ... s-intersex

Admittedly, her intersex situation is rare, but what would some of our more ardent opponents of ‘surgery’ have done were they her parents?
This article argues against surgery in her case. Looking back she questions it's value, better learn to work with the construction you have as alterations have some negative aspects.

I would see the article encouraging caution. Seriously.
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Re: Detransitioners vs the Progressive Machine: A Legal and Cultural Time Bomb

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huckelberry wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 4:20 pm
canpakes wrote:
Sat Oct 11, 2025 10:15 pm
All true.

And it’s useful to recognize that being born a boy or a girl isn’t always as cut and dry as we want to believe that it is, as Jackie Blankenship’s situation demonstrates:

https://pridesource.com/article/jackie- ... s-intersex

Admittedly, her intersex situation is rare, but what would some of our more ardent opponents of ‘surgery’ have done were they her parents?
This article argues against surgery in her case. Looking back she questions it's value, better learn to work with the construction you have as alterations have some negative aspects.

I would see the article encouraging caution. Seriously.
I agree. I’ve also stated earlier in this thread that I’d prefer gender affirming surgical procedures to wait until the age of consent. I just don’t believe that this recommendation be absolute due to the circumstances within each situation.

As part of InterAct, Blankenship advocates strongly for these limitations but also does not rule out necessary surgeries following careful consultation between appropriate parties.

https://interactadvocates.org/intersex- ... -research/

As it relates to the OP, though, I don’t believe that what her parents did had anything to do with an imagined ‘Marxist progressive’ ideology, nor do I believe that her doctors were so afflicted. That’s a point I’d like to see the OP address but I have little faith that OP will move beyond sensationalized claims presented to support weird partisan political beliefs.
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canpakes wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 6:41 pm
huckelberry wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 4:20 pm

This article argues against surgery in her case. Looking back she questions it's value, better learn to work with the construction you have as alterations have some negative aspects.

I would see the article encouraging caution. Seriously.
I agree. I’ve also stated earlier in this thread that I’d prefer gender affirming surgical procedures to wait until the age of consent. I just don’t believe that this recommendation be absolute due to the circumstances within each situation.

As part of InterAct, Blankenship advocates strongly for these limitations but also does not rule out necessary surgeries following careful consultation between appropriate parties.

https://interactadvocates.org/intersex- ... -research/

As it relates to the OP, though, I don’t believe that what her parents did had anything to do with an imagined ‘Marxist progressive’ ideology, nor do I believe that her doctors were so afflicted. That’s a point I’d like to see the OP address but I have little faith that OP will move beyond sensationalized claims presented to support weird partisan political beliefs.
100 percent ideology played a part for the docs, healthcare networks and parents. Call it whatever you like, it was stupid and lacked common sense.
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Whiskey wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 7:57 pm
canpakes wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 6:41 pm


I agree. I’ve also stated earlier in this thread that I’d prefer gender affirming surgical procedures to wait until the age of consent. I just don’t believe that this recommendation be absolute due to the circumstances within each situation.

As part of InterAct, Blankenship advocates strongly for these limitations but also does not rule out necessary surgeries following careful consultation between appropriate parties.

https://interactadvocates.org/intersex- ... -research/

As it relates to the OP, though, I don’t believe that what her parents did had anything to do with an imagined ‘Marxist progressive’ ideology, nor do I believe that her doctors were so afflicted. That’s a point I’d like to see the OP address but I have little faith that OP will move beyond sensationalized claims presented to support weird partisan political beliefs.
100 percent ideology played a part for the docs, healthcare networks and parents. Call it whatever you like, it was stupid and lacked common sense.
What was the ideology?
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canpakes wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 8:39 pm
Whiskey wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 7:57 pm

100 percent ideology played a part for the docs, healthcare networks and parents. Call it whatever you like, it was stupid and lacked common sense.
What was the ideology?
Wokeass FITH or something.
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Whiskey wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 9:05 pm
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What was the ideology?
Wokeass FITH or something.
OK. You don’t seem to want to discuss the question seriously.
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canpakes wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 9:32 pm
Whiskey wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 9:05 pm


Wokeass FITH or something.
OK. You don’t seem to want to discuss the question seriously.
No. I do. And I am.

I firmly believe that it requires an ideology that defies science, dignity, common sense and the law to rationalize harming a child like that. What it is called, matters nothing to me. It is the same ideology that put glass doors on my kids' high school restrooms and remodeled restrooms over this trans dramadamadingdong. It is just grooming and ideology with adults playing out their religion on children. By the way, that is not unique to whackadoodle wokeass crap. It is the same as whatever the hell the Duggers and Mormon Fundies are doing.
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Re: Detransitioners vs the Progressive Machine: A Legal and Cultural Time Bomb

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Whiskey wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 9:44 pm
canpakes wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 9:32 pm


OK. You don’t seem to want to discuss the question seriously.
No. I do. And I am.

I firmly believe that it requires an ideology that defies science, dignity, common sense and the law to rationalize harming a child like that. What it is called, matters nothing to me. It is the same ideology that put glass doors on my kids' high school restrooms and remodeled restrooms over this trans dramadamadingdong. It is just grooming and ideology with adults playing out their religion on children. By the way, that is not unique to whackadoodle wokeass crap. It is the same as whatever the hell the Duggers and Mormon Fundies are doing.
Still not serious. What do glass doors on high school rest room stalls have to do with ‘grooming’ and ‘woke ideologies’? How would that even work, anyway? Are your high school bathrooms unisex, or something?

It’s usually a response by Admin to combat certain activities like vaping or vandalism. It’s really not part of a worldwide secret progressive conspiracy to make your kids trans.
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Re: Detransitioners vs the Progressive Machine: A Legal and Cultural Time Bomb

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canpakes wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 9:50 pm
Whiskey wrote:
Sun Oct 12, 2025 9:44 pm


No. I do. And I am.

I firmly believe that it requires an ideology that defies science, dignity, common sense and the law to rationalize harming a child like that. What it is called, matters nothing to me. It is the same ideology that put glass doors on my kids' high school restrooms and remodeled restrooms over this trans dramadamadingdong. It is just grooming and ideology with adults playing out their religion on children. By the way, that is not unique to whackadoodle wokeass crap. It is the same as whatever the hell the Duggers and Mormon Fundies are doing.
Still not serious. What do glass doors on high school rest room stalls have to do with ‘grooming’ and ‘woke ideologies’? How would that even work, anyway? Are your high school bathrooms unisex, or something?

It’s usually a response by Admin to combat certain activities like vaping or vandalism. It’s really not part of a worldwide secret progressive conspiracy to make your kids trans.
Funny.
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Re: Detransitioners vs the Progressive Machine: A Legal and Cultural Time Bomb

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Whiskey wrote:
Sat Oct 11, 2025 7:48 pm
Kish, while this is not a question asked of me. I am curious how this fits in your view, one that I seem to align with.

This is more serious than a minor getting a tattoo or fixing a funky ear. I draw the ethical line at no for minors, with or without parental consent. It, can, wait.
This is definitely more serious than a minor getting a tattoo or minor plastic surgery. My first impression is that I do not mess with other families' decisions about their internal affairs, so to speak. After that, I think that there should be a high bar for making a decision that has huge, permanent consequences. Lastly, I am loath to place an absolute ban on things.

So, we are probably not on exactly the same page, but this is one place where I differ from many people who are actually Progressives, not just Hound Progressives.
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