WALSH: Trans Activist Makes Case For Putting All Kids On Puberty Blockers
A transgender activist and self-proclaimed “science writer” presented the argument for potentially putting all children on hormone blockers. The activist, who goes by the name Zinnia Jones on Twitter and YouTube, suggested in a recent thread that children should not be forced to undergo “the permanent and irreversible changes that come with their own puberty” without first a “professional evaluation.” Suggesting that a child’s natural process of growth and maturity somehow constitutes a human rights violation, Jones says that the argument that children cannot give appropriate consent for hormone blockers necessarily leads to the conclusion that we should be “putting every single cis and trans person on puberty blockers” until they are able to offer “informed consent.” Jones presents puberty as “a choice,” and one that every child should have the right to decline. In order to bring about this utopia,...
