It's Saturday! I'm up to nothing! The best! *laughs* Naw, just grinding on my Pokémons and chilling.

Naw, the only thing of excitement is that spouse decided the cats needed a new cat tree for Christmas. The one we most recently bought isn't sturdy enough for our four, not that tiny, cats. So now there's something bigger and made with more cats in mind. Now I've got to see if anyone in the village might want the old one. It's still in fairly good nick, just. Not up to our clowder.

What else... just reposting pretty much anything about puberty blockers that comes up on Facebook. Gotta resist the urge to add a Rowling swipe every post. I agree with my trans friends that it would be better to ignore her and let her sink away, but I really just want to hammer home to my friends in the States who continue to ignore the fact she actively harms children in our country. I ended my most recent mini-screed with a hey, if you're gonna keep consuming Rowling, have the decency to keep it off social media so I don't have to think about how you're hurting children. *shakes head* It's the closest one can come to ethically consuming Rowling in this day and age anyways.

*claps hands* Right. Back to game and caffeine, and thinking about making more rings. We'll see how it goes.

#deardiary #dailylog #pubertyblockersban #cats

I understand why the UK government is banning puberty-blockers for minors, as it's true that very little research has been done as to the longer-term effects of the drugs on transgender children, and it is important that any treatment should be thoroughly scrutinised and researched.

Thus far, the medical treatment of transgender kids in the UK has been a shambles, so hopefully more research will help to create a stable framework on which to build coherent treatment plans to include mental health, medical, and researched pharmaceutical options for trans minors.

However, I sincerely hope there is going to be a robust support system implemented to regularly monitor their mental health as they go through puberty, because otherwise, there will inevitably be an increase in the mental illness and suicide rate.

At the very least, the kids and their families should be offered regular and frequent counselling with mental health professionals who understand gender dysphoria. So far as I'm aware, nothing of that nature has been organised, and I find that deeply concerning.

#trans #transgender #transchildren #transgenderchildren #pubertyblockers #pubertyblockersban #pubertyblockersbanuk #transrightsarehumanrights

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/puberty-blockers-ban-wes-streeting-health-children-b2662590.html?lid=tdd6b7du3ipq&empar=ae4926a15d56f43fdf2934b55ce49614ae857782c871325642fed7c626f30d90

I wrote to my MP in July asking him to stand against the puberty blocker ban. I didn't hear back. I've just sent it again, pointing out it's now been seven weeks. So now I wait again.

#Trans #Parent #PubertyBlockersBan

Puberty blockers ban motivated by ex-minister’s personal view, UK court told | Transgender | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/12/ban-on-childrens-puberty-blockers-motivated-by-ex-health-secretarys-personal-view

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