would you consider it child abuse

if say you had a very young child and that child said they feel like the opposite gender and you basically encourage them to transition with hormone blockers and so on at such a young age?

i think if a child feels very strongly about being who they feel they are for instance with gender that they can try living as said gender without permanently altering their body for the time being. Maybe im wrong but was just a thought since im watching a podcast with this as a discussion atm

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SW-User

My first step would be therapy. Not to fix them... but to have someone there to talk and dig deeper into my child.

If the child, therapist, doctors, and parents all agree... maybe that is the best course of action.

PlumBerries · 31-35, F

@SW-User I agree to a extent.. like everything you said totally, but maybe planning it for the future and in the mean time living as how they feel for a fair while first and wait till they are older for the more drastic options

SW-User

I honestly don’t and will never know what a kid like that goes through.

I think what these kids need are good mentors of both kinds. People who have gone through the transition and those who lived without doing it.

PlumBerries · 31-35, F

I agree with you on that :)