🧵US: Detransitioners Walt Heyer, Billy Burleigh & @ChoooCole support Arkansas’ Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act (SAFE) , arguing that it is necessary to protect children from the horrors they themselves experienced. dailysignal.com/2022/10/25/det…
Heyer: "Kids need the assistance of trauma therapists to uncover and resolve adverse childhood experiences. Instead of encouraging kids on a path to unnecessary and destructive surgery, let’s affirm and love our young people just the way they are." #detransition
Heyer: “Kids under 18 need adults to step up and shield them from influences driving the social contagion, such as school, peers, and social media.”#detransition
Burleigh: "After doing this for 7 years, I had more problems than when I started.” He later transitioned back to male, undergoing a phalloplasty which he described as “horrific.” #detransition
Burleigh: “In hindsight, I knew I was seeking acceptance, significance, and security,” he added. “I thought that I could find those by being a girl instead of just learning to be a boy and to be myself.” #detransition
Cole: “As for these being necessary procedures? They need to do better for these kids than treating a mental health condition with cosmetic surgeries that remove function from the body." #detransition
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