Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Bill Maher BLASTS Gender-Reassignment Therapies, Tells Joe Rogan It's 'HARMFUL' For Kids" video.

Bill Maher is right from the standpoint of the Precautionary Principle. And he has a right to his opinion. Why shouldn't he talk about it??
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A child's future reproductive choices MUST BE PROTECTED. Reproductive choice is a fundamental human right. There should have never been a rush to medicalize or criminalize. Or propagandize in public school.
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Exactly.
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@gugy68 I agree. Does everyone know at 18 whether they will want children AND be able to welcome them? People who went through normal puberty are having fertility problems now. What will happen to medicalized kids?
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@tethergobrrr She disagreed with his opining on the matter, as though it is a slippery slope from Maher's expressing his opinion to prohibiting treatments for everyone else. It isn't. It just really isn't. It's another perspective on the issue. He attacked no one. If and when he does, fine. Push back then. But he did not, at all. :/
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Do nose jobs cause fertility issues? Ever?
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@jamiehopkins3796 I am opposed to making things like puberty blockers criminal only because of that one child in several million who may need them, and I believe in strictly individualized medical care. But my sympathy is with the people who see no other way of putting the brakes on this insanity. It's a human rights violation to deprive anyone of the choice to be a birth parent someday. No school should be saying the opposite, either.
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I agree. I almost always defend her because she is very often right. This time Robby is right on target 🎯.
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@jamiehopkins3796 I know. Drugs have been pushed on kids far too much. Robert Whitaker wrote the finest book on this subject, and he became the leading journalist investigating overprescription of psychoactive medications. He actually got a piece published in the BMJ recently. The fact that we have to consider making puberty blockers a crime is already a failure of the medical system. It should never have come to this.
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From the standpoint of the Precautionary Principle, he is likely right.
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@JavierFernandez01 Every child's future reproductive choices should be protected. The right to have the opportunity to found a family if you choose is a universal human right.
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With this being pushed, it is normal there will be push back.
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"Gender affirming care" is an advertising slogan. Consider what the words actually mean. They run from talking therapies, yoga, meditation, acupuncture, to serious lifelong drugs or drastic operations or both. Completely vague.
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@Nellieolsen25 Well said.
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Tell me what nose job ever caused infertility issues.
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@Joseph1NJ How is that not a reason to speak? There's some level of expertise he has to have? This is a forbidden discussion now? Are you an expert on Bill Maher? What do you know about what he's read? I don't presume to know what you've read. Whether a person is entitled to express an opinion and whether the opinion he expresses is sound are very different questions. And if kids are not being influenced to adopt a trans persona, then how can Maher influence them to abandon it? Heaven forbid someone not fill a puberty blocker prescription! Heaven forbid they pause and try psychological counseling first! Stock portfolios are at stake.
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@BenReillySpydr1962 And we are welcome to disagree. I think Brie made too much of it.
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@nathanmaherlevy5004 He's wrong that he wouldn't go full throttle on surgery, but would preserve his body such as it is and go to psychotherapy instead? Maybe he knows himself well enough to predict what he would do. I mean, even Hollywood types sometimes can.
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@nathanmaherlevy5004 No, he's not. Not at all. He is talking about HIS views on medical care that he would seek. You have to resort to abuse. There is such a thing as First Do No Harm. There is such a thing as patient rights, which includes the right to refuse drastic treatments. And the only sensible thing to do, for any condition today, is to see what the medical community in OTHER countries is advising.
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@nathanmaherlevy5004 Aww, now I see: you don't understand the Precautionary Principle. Why didn't you just admit it and read up on it?
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Would you say the same about lobotomies? I don't know, I'm seriously asking whether there should be some limit. As long as you find a doctor who agrees, the question is settled? I point this out even though in principle I don't want to see new criminal laws. If one child in 2.5 million needs these invasive treatments, I do want them to have what they need. But suddenly thousands do? And no one proposes a year of talk therapy first? No one is trying to find out what underlies it?
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@droolalot5795 Regulations of medical procedures is not "nanny state."
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@droolalot5795 Regulations where minors are concerned are even more vital. Minors do need nannies.
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@droolalot5795 Everything is pick and choose. Traffic signals are nanny state. Let people drive military-grade jeeps on the street and muscle their way first through every intersection. If you can't afford a bigger jeep, too bad. Make more money.
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@JavierFernandez01 Strawman much? "Oh, maybe we should sterilize any little tomboy girls or effeminate kindergarten boys, they'll thank us, right? Right?" I'm sure the surgery is safer done early. And everyone envies child prodigies. This is the same thing. More or less. Unless you're a transphobe or something.
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