There are some pretty serious claims here that call into question "gender-affirming care". I'd appreciate any rebuttals that address his claims (not "That trans is a transphobe"). When the legacy media consistently and continuously spouts the party line or ignores what can't be twisted to the party line, simply getting the facts straight on issues such as this isn't easy. Getting a balanced assessment is like finding a needle in a haystack.
I don't have a rebuttal because as I've stated I'm not up to date on the studies for why they think gender affirming care is somehow better than treating the mental condition. It's not my field It's pretty clear, however, that given we don't even know how to treat ADHD, there isn't a whole lot they can do for the mental condition either. But there are a few observations:
-Yes it's true Sweden and Finland have both restricted gender treatments in minors. Yes, they based it out of a study having to do with the fusing of spines in girls. They still allow it in certain very rare instances. I love love love that this is going to force dad4 to reexamine the medical choices of Sweden and Finland.
-yes it's true that the increase in gender dysphoria is highest in young and teen girls. As I said, this is different to what we find in nature where the MTFs tend to be more common. This has led to the suggestion that what is going on isn't necessarily that the girls are gender dysphoric but reject traditional notions of femininity. Nonbinary is almost an exclusively biological female thing, and if we are worried about the potential effects on minors, it would seem we might want to encourage the nonbinary choice in young women, given that it doesn't involve a physical change.
-That why I said you all are worried about the wrong thing.
-Yes it's true that there are people that transition who regret the changes. But they are specifically told (it's in the documents they signed, at least the ones I saw over 20 years ago), that it doesn't make all their problems resolve or that the gender dysphoria magically goes away. In fact, they are specifically warned that the feelings may continue, because many of them get depressed that while they might get close enough, they can never get fully there.
-Yes, it's true there is a gender treatment industrial complex that's out there to make a profit, particularly in the US and some third world nations like Thailand. But in Europe, it's actually a budget cost that is discouraged because of socialized medicine....there is no profit to be made....it's a cost to the state which the state would prefer to not incur if it had it's way from a strictly financial point of view. In fact, Europe strictly limits the covered operations for this reasons because they don't want people from other countries (such as the US) to set up residency there to get free cheap surgeries. The discussion of the gender treatment industrial complex in the US cannot be had without having a larger discussion of the predatory nature of the pharmaceutical companies, hospitals and surgeons in our for profit system. It's not really any different than the ADHD drugs in kids, colonoscopies for 50 year olds, yearly mammograms for the not at risk, or the COVID vaccine.
-Sounds like the guy has a bit of sour grapes for his choices. Sometimes people have a tendency to work themselves up for solutions. You see it in the excitement of kids heading off to college. Sometimes we are disappointed at those dreams not having met full expectation. Too bad, so sad, that's why you are an adult....don't blame others for your choices if the required disclosures were made. It's also why we should be very very very careful in allowing this in children, who are not capable of legally contracting anything.
-This guy isn't a transphobe. However, he is being exploited by Matt Walsh who is not only a transphobe, but is using the issue for his own (hypocritically) click bait purposes (given what we know from Crowder about the Daily Wire contracts), and who has something else going on with him which is really odd.