> He was injected with non-indicated contradictory sex hormones during adolescence and under duress; I don't know why you're downplaying this
I'm not downplaying this at all. It's you who are boosting your interpretation because of "assault on the testicles", "mental destruction", "sex hormone", and other things that tell me what you're really upset about is his masculinity and not his well being.
No, I don't think this is any worse than had he gotten an equivalently dangerous drug (say, fentanyl for sedation, which has also been alleged in juvenile detention facilities IIRC). And I'm point out the fact that you do is... unseemly.
This is worse precisely because of the reasons transphobia is bad. This poor boy has been forced - by a medical professional, no less - into a place on the gender plane that is different to the one that he identifies as. The psychological effects of that are horrifying, and the physiological effects are potentially permanent.
There's nothing wrong with being trans and going through HRT so long as you do it with full and knowing consent. You do that because you feel deeply dysphoric about the gap between the body you've been forced into and your true identity, but it's not without cost. To force both the cost and dysphoria onto someone is, again, truly abhorrent.
>This poor boy has been forced - by a medical professional, no less - into a place on the gender plane that is different to the one that he identifies as.
Where are you getting this intent from? I don't see anything in the article to suggest this was the doctor's goal.
It may well not have been the objective, but that was the rather unsurprising result. Depraved indifference; behaviour that can lead to criminal liability.
Are you actually suggesting him losing his masculinity by forced medication of an unnecessary drug is not in itself an issue? What's the problem with masculinity, exactly, and why is it so bad that drugs should be given to children to remove it?
> It's you who are boosting your interpretation because of "assault on the testicles", "mental destruction", "sex hormone", and other things that tell me
The "assault on testicles" thing was not even part of my description of the boy's condition, it was part of my hypothetical of a crime with potentially equivalent (or probably less severe) outcomes. And for your information, sex hormones are a basic and widely-accepted concept; just because some people are afraid to call them that in the English-language publications of some corrupt institutions in the last five to ten years doesn't mean they went away. Go ahead and tell any trans person on HRT that sex hormones aren't a thing; if they believe you, they'll be horrified, if they know how wrong you are, they may be too flabbergasted to even begin to tell you.
> ...what you're really upset about is his masculinity and not his well being.
I think that you ought to do some introspection as to why you consider those things not to be related. I suspect you are concerned about some people's security in their gender identity, but you seem to want desperately to paint it as a minor thing that they seem to have treated this boy's gender identity (and sexual function) as a disposable lab material; maybe you personally place no value on masculinity, but that's not for you to decide on this boy's behalf.
> ...an equivalently dangerous drug (say, fentanyl for sedation, which has also been alleged in juvenile detention facilities IIRC)
fentanyl is generally safe, the safest opioid AFAIK, and its effects wear off in seconds or minutes (which is why it is often administered through slow-release patches or lollipops).
I'm not downplaying this at all. It's you who are boosting your interpretation because of "assault on the testicles", "mental destruction", "sex hormone", and other things that tell me what you're really upset about is his masculinity and not his well being.
No, I don't think this is any worse than had he gotten an equivalently dangerous drug (say, fentanyl for sedation, which has also been alleged in juvenile detention facilities IIRC). And I'm point out the fact that you do is... unseemly.