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Originally Posted by White Out 403
I reject the notion that this is life saving surgery like cancer treatment or heart surgery. Could it improve the lives of some? Yeah perhaps. but the evidence in that is also lacking. I'm too lazy to google it but I'm under the impression that suicide rates do not improve long term for people who get gender re-assignment surgery.
I also think it's a weak argument to suggest the state has no role here. The state is certainly expected to protect children in other areas; children can't consent to sexual relations with adults; children can't enter in contracts; children can't buy alcohol, the list goes on.
I support the trans community and whatever adults want to do in consultation with medical professionals is fine by me. That support ends with certain treatments that are irreversible, which includes some hormone blockers. Someone mentioned, very disingenuously earlier , that need only stop taking hormone blockers and puberty continues. Well that's not the case all the time. If you take these hormone blockers for your entire teenage years your body will never be the same and you can't unring that bell.
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Your entire argument is disingenuous if you’re not willing to find out whether this actually has any quantifiable detrimental effect on youth that had gone through with it.
The ability to buy alcohol is not what delineates the age where you can make decisions for yourself.
I think you’re just tilting at windmills here.