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  LDS is a cult that has captured a US State. This is unacceptable.
context: How can an eight-year-old, in response to years of indoctrination and pressure, make an informed “decision” to be baptized? 
  
  insert photo of a Noah's Ark mobile over a bassinet and a stuffed toy that recites prayers next to an illustrated children's bible >
  
  Based and Anabaptist-pilled >
  
  It is one of the few Anabaptist ideals that I can get behind. Babies have no will to receive the host. Infant baptism as well as children circumcision is abuse. Flat out. >
  
  
  children circumcision is abuse. Flat out.
  
  Sexual abuse as well. Those who are fully circumcised have up to 90% of the nerve-endings on the penile stalk cut away; they will never be able to experience full male orgasm. >
  
  Not only are nerves severed, but you lose the entire tactile sensation of the foreskin rolling >
  
  For obvious reasons, I have to take your word for it. >
  
  It's worth noting that "transgender healthcare" or "gender-affirming care" are broad terms that can include hormonal therapy -- but those terms also include things like therapy with a supportive psychologist, as well as legal support, like for changing your name or gender. 
  Despite disinformation campaigns by anti-LGBTQ radicals, most people support at least some aspects of transgender healthcare once they know what it includes -- and banning all of it isn't policy, but fearmongering.
  The claims that transgender children are "indoctrinated" are dismissible, because the people making those claims tolerate extraordinary pressure on children in other contexts -- and simply by the numbers, childhood religious trauma is a much, much bigger problem than purported harms of transgender healthcare. 
  Which of course isn't the point of this article -- the point is hypocrisy that is required to turn slogans into bad policy, in a way that causes predictable harm. >
  
  Intersex children are routinely given involuntary gender assignment surgery without any hint of consideration for the informed consent of the child.  It's all hypocrisy and double-standards. >
  
  My sisters ex girlfriend was born intersex and raised as a boy. Fortunately her parents supported her transitioning when she was a teenager. >
  
  It’s such a horrible position to take. You’re trans but you can’t be trans in our state? 
  Objectively look at the position these states are taking. Regardless if you agree with trans people transitioning, look objectively. What if you were told you can’t dye your hair, get piercings, your hair had to be a length regardless of your preference on length. You had to wear clothes assigned to you. 
  No tattoos, no drinking, smoking, nothing that signals your division from a “norm”. Your body is not yours. >
  
  Makes total sense, sounds like Mormonism to me. You’re obviously not from Utah, that’s exactly how many conservative mormons live their lives. >
  
  I lived in Utah. I am not from Utah though. 
  There is still a large percentage of non-LDS in Utah. The state and religious leaders do not know better than doctors and studies. >
  
  They think they do and that all that matters. They’re still the ones running the show >
  
  Maybe we should send in the government again. Treat them like they used to be treated til they found Utah.