The purity spiral is alive and well! So I may as well join in. 
I care about children, all children, and want them to grow in safe environments, and not be subjected to adult fads. I care about women and their safety, dignity and privacy, and respect that different women, adult human females, have different requirements and some have religious or cultural obligations. I care about lesbians and gay men and wish they weren't being pressured into accepting the opposite sex into their dating pool by homophobes. I care about people with genuine body dysphoria and want them to be helped in the best way for each individual. I am respectful of those deserving respect and have never been banned from any social media site so I can't be doing too much wrong. Those that don't respect me don't get my respect since they've demonstrated exactly who they are.
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Can you please cite these so called experts that say gender affirming treatment is not helpful ? I have been following a few transgender people on Tik Tok where they talk about their experiences. It is very enlightening. It does very much help them. You like to write a lot but with little fact. There was recently a family in Britain that lost their daughter by suicide because of the over long wait list for gender affirming treatment. Thanks to VioletSky for being a voice of kindness and reason.Someone with more knowledge than I have can answer that, if that's ok? As I said in my post, I am not best placed to know names etc. I would be reduced to googling, which obviously you could do yourself, so there would be no point
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It is NOT ok to proclaim there is no evidence that gender affirming treatment doesn’t help with no facts. I personally have read many articles about people that have done this . I have watched transgender people talk about what it is like on Tik Tok. It’s clear it does help from what I read and heard from those that have had it done. It’s shameful to come hear with a pretense of knowledge yet NO facts.
What facts do you have? TikTok is not a source of facts. I have seen all manner of things on there - clean your towels with a mix of peroxide, vinegar and baking soda for instance. It would ruin your machine and possibly explode, but it's on there. People talk about experiences that may be true for them, but cannot be extrapolated to include others.
As Galaxy has pointed out, the NHS has advised against affirmation of a child's desire to change sex - something I wold trust over TikTok any day of the week.
I don't pretend knowledge, incidentally - if I don't know something I say so. In this case, I know that experts have advised against affirmation - I just don't know of particular studies, and I have been on too many fool's errands on here, being sent off to 'research' things that then get ignored when I question them, to fall for it again. If I can google for studies, so can you.
I have followed a few Tik Tok people who happen to be transgender. They often discuss what it is like to be transgender. Grow up with gender dysphoria. Actual Q and A about what it is like. In depth conversation. NOT sensationalist articles from tabloid newspapers. These are real people with real stories. For someone who claims no knowledge “ all of a sudden “ you do feel the need to scaremonger about the transgender population. That stirs up hate against the trans population and makes it VERY unsafe for them . Words can be dangerous and I wish some posters would read up on what as a human being it is like to have gender dysphoria. There is enough first person accounts that are worth a read . Before you come with pretentious opinions on the so called dangers of transgender males, maybe read some first hand accounts. It’s extremely unkind to come here and create a maelstrom of fear based on very few accounts. All this because a male teacher wor a skirt to class ? SAD!
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