@blablarg18 said in activist group announces "Detransitioner Bill of Rights":
some background - why would this be needed?
"gender medical treatments" are elective & cosmetic, and generally don't end, that is, patients need further medical maintenance
Most people undergoing gender-affirming care are cisgender individuals. Treatments such as hormone therapy or surgeries are also used for other medical purposes—like hormone replacement for menopause or breast reconstruction after mastectomy.
The fact that some treatments are ongoing doesn’t imply harm. It simply means that people who are satisfied with their transition may need long-term support to maintain their results—just like people who wear glasses, use insulin, or take antidepressants.
The continuity of treatment would, in reality, mean that people that are okay with the results need support to keep it, not to remove it.
grownups understand & can consent - but still, may have been misinformed or otherwise "botched" by clinic & doctor malpractice
Obviously, adults can give informed consent. If someone was misinformed or harmed by malpractice, what they need is accountability, better standards of care, and reparative options—not blanket restrictions that harm everyone.
In most cases, people who detransition do not regret transitioning itself—they regret the outcome due to social pressure, lack of support, or poor medical care. That’s a failure of the system, not of gender-affirming medicine as a whole.
kids, who still secretly believe they might be dinosaurs or dragons or magic priestesses, can't consent & may very often be Gay kids misled by homophobes (grownups who desire to heterosexualise them or otherwise exploit them)
No country in the world performs gender-affirming surgeries on prepubescent children. Medical transition for children who haven't started puberty is not allowed—because there's no physical basis for it. The only thing children can do is socially transition: change hairstyle, clothes, name, and pronouns.
The transgender and intersex rights movements both advocate against non-consensual genital surgeries on children. Intersex infants (historically called "hermaphrodites") are often subjected to irreversible surgeries to fit a binary standard, without their consent, right after birth. That’s the real medical abuse.
When puberty begins, hormone blockers may be offered—not to push a child into transition, but to pause puberty so they have more time to explore and confirm their identity before undergoing permanent physical changes. These blockers are reversible and have been used safely for decades in other medical contexts (like precocious puberty).
Hormone therapy usually becomes an option around age 16, well after the age when kids pretend to be dinosaurs or princesses. At 16, people are trusted to drive cars, work jobs, and in many places, be legally tried as adults.
Surgical transition ("bottom surgery") is only allowed after age 18 in virtually all countries, as it requires adult physical development and legal consent.
The regret rate for gender transition is under 1%—lower than many other common surgeries, including knee replacement and weight-loss surgery, which can have regret rates around 15% or higher. Most people who detransition cite external factors like family rejection, religious conflict, or financial hardship—not a change in gender identity.
Saying that supporting transition is "homophobic" is factually wrong. Trans people can be of any sexual orientation. If this concern were genuine, those worried about gay kids being harmed should be allies of the trans and intersex communities—who are fighting for bodily autonomy and against forced conformity to cis-heteronormativity.
Calling allies "groomers" is just recycled gay panic rhetoric, which historically labeled all queer people as predators. Gay people who align with transphobia are enabling a movement that also targets them. It’s politically short-sighted and self-destructive, because people who hate trans people also hate all the alphabet mafia, and they will not spare those that agreed with them, history already proved this. So it's a dumb move.
Also is a dumb financial move, Spending federal funds to address regret in less than 1% of an already small population (trans people make up about 1% of the general population) is an inefficient and ideologically driven policy. A more rational approach would be to invest in informed consent models, high-quality care, and follow-up services for all outcomes—including rare cases of detransition.
Creating surveillance and restrictive laws that affect every trans person just to find the very few who regret their transition is not only wasteful—it’s cruel. Specially when you see how high the rate of suicidal thoughts and attempts are to trans people that are not supported to live their true self.
Be better dude, we all know you are a conservative and believe some conspiracy theories, but a gay guy attacking another queer groups was something that some gay people already tried in the past: creating white-only bars and places with restrictions to lesbians, trans and drags, and this just resulted in those who did this digging their own graves.
