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The British press are spreading the news about a 16-year-old boy who is hoping to become the country's youngest sex change patient. This very delicate, sensitive issue is becoming a hot topic, and people around the world are chiming in on this teen's very personal decision.
Bradley Cooper, who goes by Ria, has been applying his mother's lipstick and dressing up in her clothes since he was 12 years old. He's now training to be a hair stylist.
A psychologist says Cooper would benefit from a sex change, and the teen believes he's ready to undergo the life-changing procedure.
Cooper told the Daily Mail, "I hate my body as it is now. I've known for years I'm a woman -- I think and act like a woman, not a man. I don't want years of misery. I want it done as soon as possible so I can be the person physically that I am on the inside."
Britain's National Healthcare System (NHS) was said to have agreed to fund the operation costing $16,000 (10,000 pounds) because a psychologist has recommended it and Cooper's single mom can't afford to pay for it herself. But now many are saying Cooper shouldn't have the procedure.
The TaxPayer's Alliance is saying that the expense can't be justified when the NHS is turning down requests for expensive cancer treatments that could potentially save dying children's lives.
Yes, screw the cancer treatments! Chop off the kicks dick!
Because that's exactly how tax payers want their money spent!
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I can't wait to see how many activists get all over this...
Anyway, someone posted this on FAF (FurAffinity). Give me lawlz people, that's why I posted it.
Shout, Shout, Let it all Out, These are the Things I Can do Without You Shouldn't Have to Jump for Joy, You Shouldn't Have to Shout for Joy
They Give You Life and in Return You Gave 'em Hell As Cold as Ice - No Bitch, You're Ice Ice Baby I Hope We Live to Tell the Tale, I Hope We Live to Shout the Tale
Will You Never Shout? And When You've Taken Down Your Guard... If I Could Change Your Mind, I'd Really Love to Break Your Heart! Come On Let Me Shout Shout Let Me, Come On Let Me Shout Shout!
No, it's not too young , she knows what she wants and waiting a few years until she's 'old enough' won't make any difference. I personally want to start hormone therapy when I turn sixteen and then go through gender reasignment surgery as soon aas possible after that. I've known what I want for a long time, and nothing can change my mind.
I think it's too young to have a sex change. He is still going through puberty and does not know what he wants in my opinion. OK so he's been applying makeup since he was 12 but I played with my sisters Barbie dolls when I was 6. I think that until he is an adult and know exactly what he wants for the rest of his life, he should not be able to have it done.
Also, if he's having this done on the NHS, I want my taxes back. I don't see how the government can justify spending money on treatments like this. I think that surgeries and treatments that aren't health related (treating the sick, wounded or deformed) should be paid for privately. I like the idea of us having a tax funding public health system but it shouldn't be abused in this way in my opinion.
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Heck, let him have the sex change, that's what I think. However, if he does decide afterwards that it was a bad idea, that's his own fault.
I honestly do NOT think it is right for the NHS to fund the procedure, seeing as this would change just one, single life. I think he should just get a job and save up for it, I'm sure a year or two with the body he has is fine.
He is still going through puberty and does not know what he wants in my opinion. OK so he's been applying makeup since he was 12 but I played with my sisters Barbie dolls when I was 6. I think that until he is an adult and know exactly what he wants for the rest of his life, he should not be able to have it done.
But she does know what she wants, most trans people know from a very young age. It's not just about the toys they play with when they're little. And I fail to see what good waiting a few years will do her, if anything it will just make things worse. When you're trans you just want to get out of your body as fast as possible and you will go through almost any means possible to do it. Besides, you can get married and join the army at sixteen, why can't you do this?
But she does know what she wants, most trans people know from a very young age. It's not just about the toys they play with when they're little. And I fail to see what good waiting a few years will do her, if anything it will just make things worse. When you're trans you just want to get out of your body as fast as possible and you will go through almost any means possible to do it. Besides, you can get married and join the army at sixteen, why can't you do this?
I just think that at 16 you can't be certain about anything to do with your body. You're still in puberty and have all sorts of hormones surging through you. How would you know that it's what you want for the rest of your life?
My main problem with it is that it's being done on the NHS. I pay a lot of money in taxes and I kind of expect it to go to helping people who are sick, wounded or deformed. I think that procedures like this should be done privately.
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
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The truth is out there...anybody got the URL?
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Don't forget to be awesome.
I just think that at 16 you can't be certain about anything to do with your body. You're still in puberty and have all sorts of hormones surging through you. How would you know that it's what you want for the rest of your life?
My main problem with it is that it's being done on the NHS. I pay a lot of money in taxes and I kind of expect it to go to helping people who are sick, wounded or deformed. I think that procedures like this should be done privately.
But you don't understand, there are people as young as six and seven you feel trapped in the wrong body and it's a serious issue. And it's not as though the hand out surgery to anyone who asks, each person is properly assessed and is usually already living as their preferred gender. It has very little to do with puberty and hormones.
And in a way, it can be described as an illness. GID is a serious problem, and the suicide rate amongst transgender people is believed to be at least 31%.
But you don't understand, there are people as young as six and seven you feel trapped in the wrong body and it's a serious issue. And it's not as though the hand out surgery to anyone who asks, each person is properly assessed and is usually already living as their preferred gender. It has very little to do with puberty and hormones.
And in a way, it can be described as an illness. GID is a serious problem, and the suicide rate amongst transgender people is believed to be at least 31%.
Maybe you're right, maybe I don't understand. I'm not going to argue into the ground on a subject I don't know enough on.
Invention, my dear friends, is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% butterscotch ripple.
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The truth is out there...anybody got the URL?
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Don't forget to be awesome.
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Is a 16-year-old too young for a sex change?
