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I don’t understand why people hit their children. I grew up seeing my siblings get beaten in front of me and then I tried to be as obedient as possible so I wouldn’t get beaten as much. I feared my parents so much, I started having anxiety attacks from a younger age and not only acted neurotic about things that could possibly get me in trouble but would piss myself if I was sure I was going to get hit. I have told people this and they just say I was hit too much or I’m too sensitive, that’s all, it’s still fine to hit your kid. I’ve heard people defend being beaten with branches, shoes, belts, brooms, hangers, and cables. It made them “strong” and how else can a child understand right from wrong. I took a class on childhood development and the texts overwhelmingly say don’t hit your kids at all. I cried reading those textbooks, someone finally agreed with me. I have a friend who is expecting, they are religious and said they will be hitting their kid because essentially God wants them to. It was very hard to hear those words.

I would love for this to be a feature, I want to filter out any posts that could be a trigger like sexual assault. I could do it in the reddit third party apps.

There are definitely trans kids getting surgeries, it’s just in the hundreds value rather than thousands. 238 in 2019, 256 in 2020, and 282 in 2021 had top surgery.

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-transyouth-data/

Between 2000 and 2005, 72% of gender confirmation surgeries were bottom surgeries; from 2006 to 2011, that number increased to 84%. And the number of patients insured by Medicare or Medicaid seeking these procedures increased threefold between 2012-2013 and 2014.

https://journalistsresource.org/politics-and-government/gender-confirmation-surgery-transgender-youth-research/

The stats exist, people just don’t care enough to look for them.

Beehaw recently defed with lemmy.world, it’s the second largest lemmy.