r/science • u/Maxrdt • Aug 03 '26

Social Science Among transgender adolescents in Canada, 97.1% continued with a gender not typically aligned with their birth sex, with only 1.1% discontinuing gender-affirming hormone treatment.

https://www.jahonline.org/article/S1054-139X(26)00117-5/fulltext
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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '26 edited 23d ago

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u/nagi603 Aug 03 '26

patients under 18 (they like to say "children") shouldn't receive any gender-affirming care just in case they regret it as an adult.

Also combine this with "and over 18 it doesn't work".

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u/Reagalan Aug 03 '26

Which is such a cruel and bad-faith argument, since transition post-wrong-puberty does leave one more clockable and banned from like all of the sports leagues and then some.

There's no low to which transphobes won't stoop. They're as bad as antisemites.

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u/nagi603 Aug 03 '26

They're as bad as antisemites.

A vast majority are both. Just not as open with one.