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by mrangle 1163 days ago
>Reasonable, empathetic people who have no experience with an issue personally should mind their own damn business regarding other people's medical decisions, especially when they themselves are actually, demonstrably (not suspectedly) ideologically motivated.

Sorry, kids don't get to make medical decisions and adults don't get to make harmful decisions for them. Your rant is borderline suited to an adult, and no one else. Last, imagine couching anti-child castration and mutilation as "ideological". Competent adults label this position to as sanity.

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They aren't your kids and you have no say in how they are treated medically so it is still none of your business.

No one is castrating children. These are medically accepted practices and you are not a practicing physician and making that comparison is unhinged.

Also, plenty of babies are sexually altered when their sex is undeterminable would you advocate not doing that?

Leave medicine to physicians and their patients and stop putting your ideology and religion and gender anxiety on kids that aren't yours.

> adults don't get to make harmful decisions for them

I believe exposing children to organized religion is inherently harmful because it inhibits the development of a scientific, evidence-based temperament that I think is an important part of good moral character. Yet billions of people drag their children to churches, mosques and temples every day.

>adults don't get to make harmful decisions for them

Actually, adults that are the parents of children get to make all sorts of decisions for children, harmful and not harmful. It's literally none of your business.