The pre-teen and teenage eras of a person's life are what I like to refer to as the "prime dumbass years." It's the point where you're extremely confident in your ignorance. Your lack of understanding and experience about the world ironically causes one to form some very rigid opinions about any given subject. 

This is why adults got together and came up with some rules that this age group has to follow in order to give them bumpers in civilization that stop them from hurting themselves with bad decisions. 

Or, at least, all of this was largely agreed upon by adults until recently. Now, there are many people who believe that kids under the age of 18 should be allowed to decide whether or not they should be able to inject themselves with hormones that permanently damage their bodies, all in the interest of "transgenderism" and "gender fluidity."

Bizarrely, as you can see from this man on the street interview, the people who believe children should be able to decide to inject themselves with hormones still also believe that kids are too young to decide on getting things like tattoos. 

Rest assured, most Americans do not support puberty blockers for minors as 63 percent believe they're too young to make that decision vs 22 percent who think they are according to a 2022 survey from the American Principles Project Foundation. 

But even 22 percent is a decent chunk of America that has been conditioned to believe there is something okay with pushing these drugs on kids who ask for them. Moreover, how these kids came to the conclusion that they do need them isn't the topic of conversation enough. 

The thing is, if the kid's decision revolved around getting a tattoo then these questions would pop up. They'd ask the child who they've been talking to or what they saw that convinced them that getting ink on your skin was a good idea. 

Moreover, Americans are rightly horrified by the idea of a child having open access to alcoholic beverages, or at the very least, of a teenager having alcoholic beverages unsupervised by their parent or guardian. It's pretty clear that the decisions of an adult having had too much to drink drunk have the potential to lead to disaster, and the decisions of a drunk teen have the potential to be even worse and can lead to a myriad of problems they'll have to live with for the rest of their life. 

Yet, the leftist activist groups, politicians, and the corporate media have convinced the populace, especially younger adults, that this is okay. People are continuously dosed with pro-transgender messaging that they've completely disconnected from the realities and effects of puberty blockers. 

It doesn't even have to be a political show or a speech from an activist that does it. As studies have shown, this conditioning usually comes from places that have nothing to do with politics. Fashion influencers and programs, movies and television, magazines, and more all normalize transgenderism to the point where people begin believing that this very fringe and unhealthy trend is, in fact, normal. 

So normal, in fact, that it's safer for kids than a tattoo. 

(Study: It's Not CNN or MSNBC That Are Conditioning People to Believe Lies)

In truth, the opposite is true. Tattoos are actually safer and actually can be reversed. Painfully, but they can be. Body alterations caused by hormone injections are not. 

This is, ultimately, one more example of how the left's control over the mainstream media is a danger to everyone.