Thought it'd be nice to stir the metaphorical pot for a bit, so here's an article on what is being referred to now as
Gender Dysphoria.
As a Libertarian I don't really have much of an opinion on this issue,
I think that people should be able to do more or less what they want with themselves, withing reason of course, assuming they aren't hurting others.
Nevertheless, I am interested in hearing other people's opinions on this particular topic.
Thoughts?
@ blue highlight: Why do you feel the need to state that? It's already legal. I think a man should be able to womanize, like Bill Clinton, receiving oral sex from a younger woman under the desk while he is still married, without that being criminalized in the United States. I think marijuana should be legal. I think IV heroin use ought be decriminalized. And I really think prostitution should be legalized. And I'm more or less persuaded cosmetic "sex changes" ought be legal--
as they are.
But let's take the laws involved in prescribing testosterone and anabolic steroids. Doctors ought be legally able too--
as they once were--to prescribe them to skinny boys and men that are psychologically devastated by their size. So that if they want to use them they can from a doctor (rather than on the unregulated black market) and gain muscle mass and even facial hair. Just like they can prescribe it to girls and women to gain muscle mass and grow facial hair.
Notice I never said whether I think x choice
ought be made (e.g., the choice to inject heroin into your veins or the choice to commit adultery).
You can legalize something like cigarettes without the US Government and every non-thinking American
assuming therefore you need to be out promoting Americans doing such if they are considering it.
Just because I think IV heroin use out be at minimum decriminalized does not mean I'll be cheer-leading for a 12 year-old boy to go out and inject heroin into his arm because he kind of feels like doing so. Actually, the US Government allows cigarettes to be legal while simultaneously waging a propaganda war in the US to discourage Americans from making the choice to smoke.
Amazing, testosterone/anabolic steroids is not killing her:
Amazing, female hormones are not killing him:
Many years ago when I was younger I was illegally injecting testosterone into me. I was using Mexican Sten. That stuff is incredible. No amount of "right eating" can get you the gains as fast, dramatically, as taking testosterone or anabolic steroids. But I don't recommend taking them for several reasons.
Anabolic steroids were invented to reduce the negative side affects of testosterone while still allowing for the muscular building effects testosterone has. I say that because what medical doctors prescribe to women transitioning to men is harder on the body than anabolic steroids. What I was taking was harder than anabolic steroids.
And due to Congress being lawyers and playing politics it is now the case a lot of atheletes that are deep into steroids know more about these substances than medical doctors. I mean they know the best ways they should be taken whereas most medical doctors are clueless--except when it comes to prescribing them to women or girls.
I had to explain to a female medical doctor at the VA Hospital what Mexican Sten was because she was clueless about it (more than me and I don't know much about it). It is--or was--a *very* well known testosterone to take in the culture of steroids for those trying to gain mass. But a medical doctor never even heard of it. Thanks to Congress. You know... thanks to lawyers that are elected as politicians. A bunch of ambulance chasing liars.