a blow in favor of the anti-trans agenda?

Frankly, I'm not sure I understand all of the issues here. I've stated and restated my position that, if you're over 18 and you want to do something with your body like change your sex, then do so with my blessing, unless your goal is to be a trans man competing in women's sports (why do we never see the reverse? because all those claims about how hormone treatment "evens things out" are bullshit!). The sports problem highlights what is to me a huge moral issue; otherwise, if you're trans, minding your own business, and not actively trying to rope people into your "cause," whatever that cause might be, then I say go for it. Do the surgery; get the hormone treatment; dress and act differently; do it all, baby! But don't expose perfectly "cis" minors to this stuff and try to convince them that they need to cross over the gender/sex fence. The early years are a confusing time, and it's easy for some unscrupulous adult to come around and fuck up the rest of a kid's life through sexual mistreatment/abuse.

But the issue is even more complicated than all of that. What's being talked about below is the Supreme Court recent ruling in favor of Tennessee's ban on "gender-transition treatments" for minors. I'm in favor of the Supreme Court's ruling in theory, but in practice, what does this mean for a teen who's already partway through the treatments? "Whoops. Sorry, kiddo, but you're gonna be stuck looking like a fish, I'm afraid. Further treatment's been outlawed." Not that all of these treatments produce successful results; they obviously don't. There are, in fact, very few trans women who actually look like women at the end (does transitioning ever really end?) of the process. I've seen, on YouTube, precisely two people claiming to be trans women who passed the visual red-flag test: they looked utterly feminine, lacked the strong male jaw and facial bone structure, and had bodies that could even be called appealing-looking. Two. Out of how many thousands of people undergoing these treatments just in America? Then factor in Southeast Asia and other trans hubs.

All I have to offer to the unfortunate minors who might be required to stop their transitioning process in medias res is my sympathy. Look, ladies—I don't think you're going to hell, and I generally don't think you're mentally ill. If you were over 18, I'd say you absolutely have the right to do with your body whatever you want. But since you're a minor, you're stuck between a rock and a hard place while the laws appear to be in flux. I can't call myself actively pro-transitioning (you know the old joke*), but I can definitely sympathize with your cell-deep conviction that you somehow ended up in the wrong body.

As I said above, though, I don't have a full grasp of the issues. Maybe there's some legal or technical nuance here that I'm not grasping.

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*You've doubtless heard the old joke:

Trans person: Why can't you accept me for who I am?
Cis person: How can I do that when you couldn't accept yourself for who you were?