Tricked Into Sex Change?

[fender62]

autistic teenagers want sex change, surely not capable of making such a drastic decision.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6401593/Whistleblower-teacher-makes-shocking-claim-autistic.html

[Kathyan]

Why are children being allowed to change sex? Shouldn't they have to wait until they at least reach 18?

[naomi24]

PP, take a breath.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Would you recommend chemical or surgical treatement to "cure" a fourteen year old suffering from gender dysphoria, Mr Pedant?

Do you know the science of this? Like how many "sufferers"? Outcomes for the gender reassigned?

Your friend Jim has probably got his hands on the academic consensus, i.e.Women's Studies at Keele.

[vetuste_ennemi]

And do you allow the possibility that long-term and irreversible harm may be done to adolescents whose confusions about identity have been encouraged in a certain direction

PS: I do do understand that the question has a decent but old-fashioned intent and therefore demands a sneering answer. Any chance that you you could step out of character and answer honestly for once?

[ummmm]

Kath - children aren't allowed a sex change. The can be given drugs to block puberty.

[Kathyan]

But aren't they allowed to live as the sex they want to be?

[bainbrig]

No, autistic children/people aren’t stupid, but they are different - different in many ways, one of which seems to be in their constant questioning of ‘givens’. One ‘given’ is socially ascribed gender roles, so that where ‘normal’ children tend to accept their gender allocation, autistic children question it.

In some ways this might demonstrate a superior understanding of gender roles.

[jackthehat]

I'm not sure there are enough verified, or verifiable, facts in this article to warrant alarm.

Autism has so many different forms that it is impossible to state that these children are any more susceptible to pressure to 'change sex' than their peers.

[ToraToraTora]

all this TG cobras is getting out of hand.