That subtilely implies it’s a decision to view oneself as a different gender from what was assigned at birth, but it’s not entirely clear it’s a choice in every case. Edge cases in biology get wild and sex assigned at birth can be a near arbitrary decision. Ex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)

Parents making major medical decisions has a huge precedent in a wide range of procedures with significant risks and consequences. Separating conjoined twins for example.

▲

remarkEon 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

>from what was assigned at birth

The passive voice language here is really bizarre. Who is doing the assigning?

>Separating conjoined twins for example.

This is not, in any way, comparable to a 12 year old taking medications that permanently sterilize them.

▲

4gotunameagain 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It is entirely clear that it can be the case, as proven by the existence of people "detransitioning".

It is also entirely clear that there have been parents (usually mothers) who wanted to have a trans child because it was cool.

▲

Retric 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There is a logical flaw in suggesting that something that occurs with a small percentage of a population such as “detransitioning” implies anything about every member of a population.

Child abuse exists, but doesn’t imply anything about every parent.

	▲	blindriver 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> There is a logical flaw in suggesting that something that occurs with a small percentage of a population such as “detransitioning” implies anything about every member of a population. > Child abuse exists, but doesn’t imply anything about every parent. This is funny because that's the exact argument that transphobic opponents say about trans people themselves and the argument as to why gender fluidity or gender outside of sex doesn't exist. "Just because an extremely small number of people believe they are a different gender than their biological sex doesn't mean that gender is different from biological sex" is almost exactly the argument that transphobes use.

▲

thrance 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

So-called "detransitions" represent way less than 1% of the trans population. In particular, the proportion of people regretting their transitions is much smaller than that of mothers regretting having their kids. They receive massively inflated media attention because their stories are picked up and turned into propaganda in service of bigoted narratives.