Of the fierce debates raging between left and right, the question of whether children should be allowed to undergo medical gender reassignment is arguably one of the most important.
Allie Beth Stuckey Relatable producer Ellen Fisher has been steadfast in her stance that children should not be allowed to medically transition, and she made her case in a recent debate with Desmond Fambrini on The Ellen Fisher Podcast.
When Fambrini cites the approval of puberty suppressants by the American Psychiatric Association and the Trevor Project, Stuckey is ready.
“Unfortunately, many of these facilities and the people within them are obsessed with a particular ideology that sacrifices the well-being of children, so my answer to that question is a resounding no,” Stuckey said.
“If it’s a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old thinking about puberty suppressants, they certainly don’t yet have the capacity to understand the long-term consequences of what they’re putting their body through. Their minds as well as their bodies need puberty to be healthy,” she added.
Stuckey explains that these are “irreversible procedures and processes that children cannot consent to because they do not have the mental capacity to understand the long-term implications.”
One of these long-term effects is fertility, which Stuckey believes is one of the key reasons for not medically reassigning children.
“Not everyone values fertility,” Fambrini countered, before Stuckey explained that children don’t know if they want children at a young age, so it’s cruel to take that idea away from them.
“Also, for example, in women, having too much testosterone in the body can cause the uterus to weaken. A whole host of physical ailments can result from trying to transform your body into something it can never be,” Stuckey adds.
As well as the physical ailments, it’s hard to ignore the suffering of detransitioners around the world.
“They not only detransitioned and realized, ‘Oh, I want to be a mother,’ but they also realized, ‘Oh, I really want to breastfeed, but I can’t right now.’ And unfortunately, the adults around them had the mindset you just described, which is, ‘If I can drive a car, I can make the decision to remove my healthy breast,’ and now they live with that guilt,” Stuckey explains to Fambrini.
When Fambrini pointed out that the statistics reflect individuals being happier after medical transition, Stuckey again disagreed.
“I’m not condemning or opposing gender transition based on regret rates. I believe it’s objectively, morally and ethically wrong to harm one’s own body, especially if it’s a child,” she explains.
“I would never support puberty blocking or chemically castrating young people.”
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