Queenmandy85

You really don't know how this works. Each case is stringently assessed before a candidate can have surgery. Blockers also require assessment. A kid can't just walk into a pharmacy and buy some puberty blockers.

It has been labled on this forum that this situation is a mental disorder. It isn't, but it is a real condition. It is a situation that must be treated. The most effective treatment by far has been gender re-assignment surgery. Being transgender is different from conventional cross dressing. Cross dressing is a choice. Being transgender is a condition you are born with. So far, the only viable treatment is surgery. The cause of the frequency of suicidal behaviour is the result of a lack of support from family and friends and the individual having to deal with a situation they do not understand. That is why it is essential that children learn about gender issues before they actually have to face them Knowledge is power.

Wasn't "stay in Mexico" ruled illegal?" You are probably correct but if a person manages to place a foot on US soil, and claims asylun or refugee status, the law says you cannot turn them back until their claim has been processed and investigated. What do you propose the military do? This is a serious problem that Canada will have to deal with in the near future. It is time for the international community to revisit the laws regarding refugees. The problem with that, of course, is you can have all the laws you want but if you have a critical mass of people pushing through the border, there is no way to stop them. The only way to deal with the problem is to prepare to accommodate them, because they have no where else to go.

Good point about the attention. There still isn't much of a mechanism to close the border to illegal crossing while keeping it open for trade and legal traffic, including refugee claiments and asylum seekers.

You mean you told your parents everything? You didn't have any secrets from your parents? You wrote, "I would never accept that my child has a secret with another adultnot in my family." You make it sound like using another name in school is tantamount to child molesting. We are just talking about a name. Most teenagers tell their parents as little as possible. In the interest of inconsistancy, the only people teenagers have less respect for than their parents is their teachers. Kids are basically immune to teachers influence. Yes, there are the class sucks, but most students hold their teacher to be objects of ridicule. The only people who can influence teenagers are other teenagers.

Success at what? He will be starting his second term. He won't have to worry about re-election. All he will be focused on will be fending off his legal troubles, improving his golf score and acquiring as much money as he can. Why would he care about the border? There isn't anything he can do that Biden couldn't, so why get into all that agro?

Part of the new policies in Alberta and Saskatchewan concerns names and pronouns. Why is it an issue if a student asks the teacher to address the student using a particular name and pronoun. It is not something that is irreversable. It is a question of a person's personal choice and is nobody else's business. It is something that concerns only the student and the teacher. Does government have the right to take away a person's freedom of choice?

I don't think he will. What is in it for him?

First, it will be the Democrats who will be upset because they could have prevented it by nominating a more electable candidate. Then it will be all those MAGA cultists who will chew the carpet in disappointment when President Trump takes root at his golf resort and doesn't do anything. To paraphrase that little ditty, "The USA can kiss my a$$, I've got the POTUS job at last." 5 million illegal immigrants storming across the border, not his problem. President Trump won't care. He will just blame President Biden and Secretary Clinton for everything and play golf until sunset.

While the mafia was part of Mike Pearson's base, I doubt car thieves are going to vote for the grits.

Nobody will be getting surgery until they are adult.

However, he did get vaccinated and encouraged everyone to get vaccinated.

We are happy you aren't among the 93,000 people in Florida who lost their lives to Covid. You would be missed.

Florida, with half the population of Canada suffered almost 25% more cases and almost twice as many deaths.

West, I salute you. Regardless of your view of President Trump, you have demonstrated that rare virtue of re-examining your opinions and following a new path. That is maturity and courage.

"Don't you find it odd that plastic surgery can cure a mental disorder?" Quote from Felicity Huffman's character, Bree Osbourne, in Transamerica (2005) Why do you care if someone wants to exersize their rights over their own healthcare? Do you oppose surgery to correct a cleft lip? Gender affirming surgery is corrective surgery. Do you believe a teenager should not receive surgery to correct a cleft lip? As I asked earlier, if you are male and your parents decide to force you to be female, do you believe your parents should have that right?

How would you react if, when you were in your teens, your parents decided you should have a sex change and you were opposed to it. Are you saying your parents knew better than you? If a parent does not support their teenager in these rare situations, they are likely to lose their teenager either by the kid leaving home or committing suicide. Surgery is not going to happen until the individual is an adult. What is the harm when a teacher refers to a student by the name and pronoun the prefer? This whole issue is being driven by socialist "conservatives" who demand medical autonomy when it comes to their own phobia with a vaccine but want to deny the same freedom when it comes to women's healthcare or transexual men and women. The term "social conservative is a misnomer. The proper term is communist.

Everything is going to be okay. President Trump explained today of Fox, that when he said he was going to be a dictator on Day one, he was just kidding. That is a relief.

Provincial Health ministries. I don't know much about hormone blockers. It is my understanding that they are reversible. The thing is, a child knows if they are in the wrong body by the time they are in their early teens. They don't need someone else to tell them. It is a rare condition. Unfortunately, even with the best parents, teenagers tend to be loath to tell their parents anything about sex or gender. When a youth does inform her parent that she wants to transition to a male, the best response for the parent is to be supportive and loving because nothing the parent or anyone else can say or do, is going to change that kid.

That is naive. Just how do you prevent bullying? Schools have prohibited bullying for decades. How is that working?

What do you mean with the word "choice?" The choice is made for them. You do not suddenly decide the nature of your gender when you reach puberty. When you were in high school, did you ever wake up in the morning and decide, "I think I want to have a good beating today, and alienate my friends while I am at it?"

I think you mean women competing in women's sports. We are talking about people over the age of majority. Also, do you not have an issue of men competing in men's sports? Or are you discriminating against men? Probably half of trans people are F2M.

Going to school to get a frequent shit-kicking from the knuckle dragging trogladytes that infest every school is not something anybody does lightly. Tragically, some ignorant parents while add to the beatings. So, no, it is not a trendy hip thing a person does, nor is it a mental illness.

In Canada, nobody can have gender reassignment surgery until they reach the age of majority, 18 or 19.

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