Pure Imagination

The writing when I go back to edit:

Don't feed the trolls

Never give out personal information

Anonymity is the best defense

Don't click suspicious links

Don't click popups and ads

Just because it's written doesn't mean it's true

You are responsible for your own experience

"Don't let fascism grow roots.

RIP the far-right out of our communities"

Denying a 25 year old bodily autonomy is not the argument they think it is.

And are you *sure* that is the reason doctors don't perform surgeries on 25 year olds?

ARE YOU SURE?

Is it possible this is less about possible regret and more about doctors valuing women more as incubators than people?

If people in severe chronic pain cannot get this operation then the reasons seem a little more complicated than just "you may regret this later."

Also...

Transgender genital surgeries before the age of 18 are so rare you can count them on your fingers and toes. Probably just fingers. The ones I found were special cases that involved a court battle.

This notion that these surgeries are common and spontaneous is ridiculous.

As far as my research has shown, there are no doctors currently doing these surgeries in the US before 18. There are very few that will even do mastectomies that young. Some will do them at 17 before the person goes to college so they can be mostly healed by the time they start in a new environment. Even then, there are maybe 300-500 mastectomies performed on minors each year—the vast majority aged 17.

That is compared to thousands of implants and reductions for cis minors. And whether or not you think that is wrong too, there are no bills in Congress to ban these procedures. The president isn't mentioning them in speeches. No one cares about this except as a response to trans issues. "Well, that's awful too!" is pretty much the extent anti-trans people have ever thought about cosmetic surgeries on cis minors. It quickly leaves the brain and gets filled back in with keeping trans kids from using pronouns in school or peeing in the wrong spot.

It should also be noted that gender affirming surgeries have one of the lowest regret rates of any surgery. Lower than back surgery, knee surgery, prostate removal, breast reconstruction.

twelve episodes, twelve contestants - a mix of annoying middle aged sci fi authors, fan fic authors and random people off the street

a variety of against the clock writing tasks, big finish scripts, ability to interact with actors without shouting at them and challenges where you have no budget or doctor for an episode

judged by solely by christopher eccleston