• BobaFuttbucker@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    That single statement contains 1 claim:

    WPATH removed lower age limits in SOC8.

    This is true.

    It also contains another claim:

    They did this while consulting with child castration fetishists.

    Based on the article provided, it appears to be true. If that’s the case then I think most sane people would agree they should not consult with them anymore, and revisit any influence they might have had on policy.

    Having said that, gender-affirming care has been shown to be a net positive to individuals and society as a whole, so I’m not sure if you’re then trying to go the next step and discredit that in general as a result of this, because that’s how the article reads and is a separate discussion entirely.

    I’m not seeking to disprove anything in this article, merely understand what kind of discussion you want to have about it.

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      2 months ago

      This is the sort of useful conversation I was looking to have. I think we’re in agreement. In another comment, I wrote this:

      WPATH should clean house and purge all pedophiles, retract SOC 8, publish an apology, and write a new version that doesn’t have input from known pedophiles.

      Which might not be how you would phrase it, but largely agrees with:

      If that’s the case then I think most sane people would agree they should not consult with them anymore, and revisit any influence they might have had on policy.