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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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    1. You are vastly overrating the effects here.

    2. Do you understand how detrimental gender dysphoria is to one’s mental health? It generally causes pretty bad depression and often suicidality if not able to be improved, and especially in those forced to be closeted. Going through the wrong puberty makes this even worse, so being able to delay that to allow a child to more fully form their sense of self is valuable.

    If I ever have a kid (if I have kids) going through that I would much rather take the slight risk of delayed bone growth to let them make the best informed decision they can about their gender, and so they aren’t depressed for years and potentially kill themselves. Bone strength problems are also usually treatable with other things too.










  • And to add to that, even if one does live in a city where they don’t need a car for day to day activities, if you ever want to leave the downtown and urban transit network (if it exists) your options are incredibly limited. I’m about to get an apartment and I probably could bike to work if I wanted to in good weather (would kinda suck and require crossing a large road with no pedestrian crossings whatsoever) but going to see family or my partner that lives 2 hours by car away is impossible.

    I would love to take a train for both of those things, and there even is one (1) amtrak line from my home city that goes to one useful place for me but nowhere else in the state, and even that one line is only a couple days a week and almost never works out unless it’s actively planned around.