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Ask Anything 23w

I’d like to see something Conservatives, what is your most liberal opinion? Liberals, what is your most conservative opinion? I’ll go first, I think that if adoption was better, that abortions should be less common, as they wouldn’t be as needed.

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Anonymous 23w

I’m a leftist who agrees with banning trans surgeries for minors

Anonymous 23w

*modern* conservatives hate this but the minimum wage should be enough for one person in a partnership to be able to comfortably stay at home for the benefit of their family

Anonymous 23w

As a liberal woman I would like a gun

Anonymous 23w

Conservative but I think the state getting involved in abortion is bs. I would never get one but a government shouldn’t be able to tell you not to. That should hopefully be the work of supportive peers familiar with your situation

Anonymous 23w

Conservative - absolutely zero company or individual money should be allowed near our government’s decision making bodies. We pay taxes and that is all that should go in or out of the government, lobbying, special favors, and donations influence too many people in our governing body. This also operates visa versa as well if the government is going to do something it has to be the government not an ngo. Universal healthcare would actually be feasible if we did this.

Anonymous 23w

im a moderate im pro choice, pro gay marriage want universal healthcare biological sex should separate sports i think there are only 2 genders children should not be able to transition

Anonymous 23w

Death penalty. I’ll admit, I don’t trust the government to be in charge, so in practice I can’t support it. But GOD do I wish it were possible. Some people deserve death

Anonymous

#2 23w

I’m curious on this now Is this exclusively for abortion, or in general for medical decisions?

Anonymous

OP 23w

Def in general for medical decisions and before you say it yes that includes gender transition once you’re an adult. I don’t believe it should be allowed underage but if an adult wants to go through that I don’t think a government should be involved let it play out culturally.

Anonymous

#4 23w

I would like to ask a follow up I agree surgeries shouldn’t be haphazardly performed for minors But what about reversible procedures such as medications? Just curious as to why is all

Anonymous

OP 23w

I honestly don’t have a strong opinion for HRT, it’s not completely reversible despite what some people believe.. I think teens should be allowed to get HRT if they’ve been through the right counseling and their doctors are on board with it but it’s complicated

Anonymous

#5 23w

Currently government sponsored health insurance is the within the top three most spent categories of the government and yet very of us can afford healthcare. It’s because the government doesn’t have full or no control of the prices set. The government just writes blank checks because healthcare is still semi private and is backed by large company sponsored insurance for its employees. If insurance was not touched by the government the pockets would dry up and it would become a competitive market

Anonymous

#5 23w

If government were the 100% funders we would be able to legislate prices and taxes through our votes we currently have neither of these because we allow government to have money input from the rich and we allow the government to give their companies funding in return.

Anonymous

OP 23w

HRT isn’t as reversible as people claim. There’s number of studies showing it has life long effects in hormone production and regulation similar to how long time use of anabolic steroids has lasting effects on testosterone production in the body and numerous health effects and the effects are worse the younger you start. The reversible procedure claims are unfounded.

Anonymous

#4 23w

Nah, teens are too young. The vast majority of minors diagnosed with gender dysmorphia no longer have it when they’re older. The body and brain in particular change so much that really the safest option is waiting until about 25 for the brain to be mostly developed before doing any procedures but thats not realistic so we should at least wait until adulthood

Anonymous 23w

*you* might, but republicans in charge have not supported a minimum wage increase in my living memory

Anonymous

#7 23w

Do you have a source for the claim about misdiagnosed gender dysphoria? There are definitely many cases where people experiment with their gender and later realize they’re not trans, but there are also many people who have known they’re trans since early or late childhood

Anonymous

#4 23w

HRT does more than just a visual change to the body which is why I think it’s more of a grey area as to when it should generally be seen as “acceptable” treatment

Anonymous

#4 23w

I didn’t say misdiagnosed dude or are you claiming that just because someone is diagnosed with a mental disorder it has to be a life long to count as an accurate diagnosis? I said it goes away or decreases. Anyways if you want a source, one of many is one conducted by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands funding that the vast majority of teens and children who experience gender dysmorphia have a significant decrease or a total loss of the gender dysmorphia by the time they reach 25

Anonymous

#8 23w

As you get further left, you find that guns get re-allowed

Anonymous

#9 23w

i also think people should be hired and accepted into colleges without their race, sex, or economic status being a factor . in 99% of cases don't believe in affirmative action

Anonymous

#7 23w

yeah any and all forms of transitioning need to be outlawed until age 18. puberty blockers and hormones before the body is done developing actually makes surgical transitioning more difficult because they arent operating on fully formed anatomy

Anonymous

#9 23w

Banning non-medical transitioning (name and style changes) is too extreme and restrictive of personal expression though… the point of puberty blockers is to delay puberty so that the child has more time to decide (and not experience the puberty that’s making them dysphoric), I’m curious to know the sources about HRT making surgeries more difficult because I’ve never heard of that

Anonymous

#4 23w

Plus puberty blockers aren’t only used for transgender situations, that wasn’t even their original purpose, those shouldn’t be banned I don’t think

Anonymous

#4 23w

so kids can't drink or vote or join the military but they should be able to stop puberty, which has never been done before in the history of our species? ok buddy

Anonymous

#9 23w

Equating doing addictive and often physically harmful drugs to a medical decision that’s decided by multiple doctors and therapists in rare cases is certainly a choice, I do suggest doing more research into what puberty blockers do and how they’re used, along with HRT in general

Anonymous 23w

No it really isn’t. At least on a policy scale

Anonymous 23w

we're talking about transgender children, not medical necessities. that's an entirely different convo

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Anonymous 23w

a 12 year old believing they were born in the wrong body is different than a 12 year old who has a hormone issue and will die without puberty blockers the point is, we shouldnt be giving them unless it's life or death- children can transition as adults. hormonal issues need to be addressed asap

Anonymous 23w

yeah i wish legislation took into account exceptions