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Yeah, it seemed cliche to me. Maybe it surprised some people because it wasn’t a thing in Disney movies?

It’s funny people talking about how things are done in the U.S. and giving different answers.

Yeah, different states have different requirements and processes.

In Kansas, when I got my original license in the 90s it cost like $60 total to get the first one and ever since it has been somewhere between 10-30 or so to renew every 6ish years or something. Originally you had to take a written test that you could fill in at home. Just ridiculously cheap and no real barriers. We also don’t have any kind of emissions requirements for non-commercial vehicles. The lax requirements for driving and emissions is probably the result of the farming lobby.

Spittin’ words of wisdom right there.

That was my experience as a boy and now a man. It isn’t inherently a negative thing because it is shorthand for expectations, but it becomes absolutely horrible when people try to force it on others instead of acknowledging that gender roles are generalizations and not written in stone.

Why not both?

Fuck the GOP, hope they all get pancreatic cancer.

Irrelevant to the unwashed masses.

The speed of light is the speed of information, including gravity, electromagnetism, and some other things I am not thinking of off the top of my head. For example, if the sun disappeared right now, the lack of gravitational pull would reach Earth at the same time as it blinked out from Earth’s perspective.

No, because if you can prove it then it is just natural.

Not all prisons, because some states don’t allow the exception that exists in the 13th Amendment to be implemented in their state prisons. There is still a lot of coercion and inmates are massively underpaid for their work in a way that is slavery in everything except name in those states.

So if a prison has a work program for inmates, assuming it is slavery is a good assumption. But some prisons don’t let prisoners work for various reasons, so not all prisons practice slavery.

Slavery is currently legal a the federal level for incarcerated people as that exception was carved out in the 13th Amendment. That is pretty much maxed out in its current state through disproportionately incarcerating minorities, and is likely to be the primary reason that the US has such a ridiculously high incarceration rate.

And more specifically, whether parents can deny a reversible puberty delaying hormone treatment against the patient’s wishes and force the patient to undergo puberty against their will.

I don’t see anything about puberty blockers in the posts I was responding too, just a general statement about a single doctor and treatment, which is extremely vague so I just commented about the single doctor part. Treatment could also be simply presenting, it could be puberty blockers, and it could possibly be some kind of surgery for extreme cases of dysphoria although the last one is unlikely to be on the table without parents being on board in the first case.

The question is so vaguely worded and transitioning is such a broad description of so many things that it is likely to cause this kind of conflict with people who agree that a child who is trans should have autonomy in making their own decisions. Parents should be supportive, but I just hesitate to consider them abusive because there are also rare cases where the child is actually just unhappy with going through puberty and not actually trans but have difficulty describing it.

Would I think someone who opposed their kid who said they were trans since they were five going on puberty blockers is being abusive? Yes.

Would I think someone who opposed their kid who suddenly say they were trans when puberty hits along with describing the reason being that they don’t like having periods while still being find being called she/her going on puberty blockers is being abusive? Nope, that parent is probably paying better attention to their child’s need for support as they go through puberty.

This is a big and complicated topic and a simple ‘child and doctor say X so parent is abusive’ is fine as a default assumption as long as there is room for the doctor to be wrong and the child to be confused.

Using ChatGPT to prove you are right is fucking hysterical.

I’m not going to ask because I expect that you will lie based on how you are approaching the question and responding. While I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt, this just reeks of rage baiting.

If not following through on the treatment is abuse, then of course that would make the treatment forced.

My response is that you are opposed to trans kids and trying to start arguments by pretending to support trans kids by using a vague wording that suggests surgery when that is generally not recommended prior to them turning 18.

You asked a shitty question and are clearly looking for a specific response.

!00% disagree that a single doctor’s recommendation should ever be required to be followed, because sometimes doctors are wrong. That is why there are second opinions and ultimately it is the patient’s choice even if two doctors agree. People with extremely rare conditions being forced to have a specific treatment that they know isn’t working would be abuse.

Sounds like you found a new job that disrupts the existing paradigm!

It is easy as shit to do that!

Step 1: Be born into wealth.

I don’t know the other steps because I missed step one, but everyone I know that succeeded at step 1 is set for life.

It was the opposite of a flood plain, but the land was just as cheap!