Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Jordan Peterson Hits Disgusting New Low With Disturbing Guest" video.

  1. No one suggested the child should be told any such thing -- well, Emma pretended that was advocated.
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  2. This has nothing to do with the current push for massive medical interventions for minors who are too young to understand the full ramifications. Did you need hormones or surgery to affirm your religious beliefs?
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  3.  @danielv.5988  I give them credit for not feeling homicidal.
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  4. @CaptPeon  You're repeating talking points. At 16, a person is supposed to have 65+ years ahead of them. Show me the data that mastectomies, nevermind more serious interventions that can cause life-long complications, come with fewer regrets over a lifetime than a knee surgery. Where is the evidence? Counselors? They've messed up at least as many people as parents have. Only parents, at least, don't get paid for it. Who suffers the consequences of being wrong?
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  5. @CaptPeon  Puberty blockers are not without grave side effects. They are not in all cases "completely reversible." The body is a sensitive system, not a machine. Puberty blockers can even produce psychological symptoms and cognitive decline.
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  6. @tessa63627  I didn't see this until now. First, there is no data whatsoever on the AGE at which surgery was performed on the people in this meta analysis. Second, here is a line from the study: "Overall, follow-up time from surgery to the time of regret assessment ranged from 0.8 to 9 years." Say WHAT? How can you even mix such disparate time frames, much less generalize over a reproductive lifespan? Even nine years is not a long time, and does not respond to my point. Third, a 1% regret rate is equal to 1000 per 100,000 cases. Were this a side effect of a life-altering, irreversible drug or other treatment, it would require warnings. Fourth, I saw no mention of puberty blockers, perhaps because young teens were not in the samples? You go and read it and show me if that treatment is included. No one is trying to curtail adults in pursuing their happiness.
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  7. ​@generallyuninterested4956 Is there such a thing as a gay child? Don't you have to pass through puberty to know for sure whether you are gay? And be above the age of consent? Don't you get to have time to find yourself and form a personality, and to decide whether to have kids of your own someday? It seems a shame to interrupt the natural process or rush it.
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  8. Does he need lifelong hormones and serious surgery to be gay? Does he have to forego the opportunity of being a birth father one day? I hope not. The right to found one's own family is part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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  9.  @kataluna22167  Yeah, right. Everyone reporting gross malpractice is lying, just like everyone with myocarditis from the . . . is just nervous.
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  10. @selah181  You are confusing gay and lesbian and bisexual adults with barely pubescent children suffering from gender dysphoria. Being gay in and of itself requires no treatment, the people who are are generally happy they are, or at peace with who they are, and every state of being is entitled to acceptance. Whether to medicalize a dysphoria early in a person's physical and cognitive development (like at 14 or 16 or even 18) is the issue. What is best for people with various psychological conditions is the issue. Too bad we veered from indoctrination and massive medicalization to repressive laws. I oppose both. All the professionals are letting us down across the board, and that's becoming common. LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE.
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  11. @dougkenny6548  A child with gender dysphoria needs talk therapy from a responsible therapist. It's not a designer bag, it's a need.
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  12.  @dougkenny6548  DUH. Who raised you not to read? You don't discipline away an emotional problem. If you're the adult, you deal with it. If you're the parent, you help your child, whatever their age.
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  13.  @dougkenny6548  Look, if I want crazy, I'll read the NYTimes comments. Blocked
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  14. How can it be controversial to support every child's future reproductive choices? They have a right to these choices, LGBTQ or not, and a right to decide once they're grown. Should only the neurotypical, gender conformists be parents someday??
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  15. @Aarenby  Breast reduction does not prevent breast feeding. In any case, diet and exercise should be tried first. You can't compare reduction to mastectomy.
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  16. False. Grossman is board certified. She could not maintain her certification if she supported such a thing.
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  17. ​@TheMarsCydonia LIAR. You are conflating "conversion therapy" involving the attempt to force a person to change their sexual orientation, with therapy aimed at encouraging children and adolescents to accept the body into which they were born, whether that be male, female, or, in rare instances, intersex. If a person hates their body, supporting them in loving their body is not conversion therapy. They aren't trying to convert them from something they naturally are (such as gay, lesbian, bisexual), but looking for ways to help them accept their biological body. When that proves impossible, then you consider more invasive therapies. I'm so glad trans is mostly an affluent white problem. One less thing foisted on people of color, whew!​
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  18. Miriam Grossman did not make this video for children but for adults. So Emma's entire rant is pointless.
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  19. First World white people problems. Here we go again.
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  20.  @tessa63627  Maybe my post was shadowed?
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