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Originally Posted by White Out 403
So then you'd be in favour of a ban on gender reassignment surgery for anyone under 18? Also, aren't there hormone blockers being used now that cause irreversible changes to the body?
This is a stupid comparison. I don't have a polite way of saying that.
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Surgery is rarely, to the point I’m tempted to use “if ever” despite assuming there’s probably an exception out there, done under 18. Doctors recommend 18+ but often won’t do it until much later. Hormone therapy is recommended for age of consent, or around 16/17 and up but again, doctors often won’t do it until much later. Puberty blockers/suppressors can be used younger, obviously, but they are “reversible” in the sense that when the person stops taking them, puberty carries on.
Of course, lumping these all together as child abuse despite some of them being effective treatments for gender dysphoria and threatening to jail parents, teachers, doctors, nurses, dayhome providers, etc, is just a fundamentally insane thing to do.