This is a ridiculous argument. It's empathy and ideology run amok. You don't address why any of my points or facts about this issue are wrong and why, you just deliver a general and vague talking point aimed at nothing more than to ascribe gall to anybody poking holes at the "pro" LGBT orthodoxy.dajo9 said:
I think it takes a lot of gumption for a person to look into the emotional and mental distress of another family and from the outside decide they know what's best. I generally think governments and non-family should stay out of it and families and their doctors should do the best they can in a challenging situation.
Absolutely whatever a patient and doctor want to do is always intrinsically Ok? How about when a severely depressed non-terminally ill wants doctor to assist their suicide?
Government utilizes regulation of mental and physical health professionals all the time to protect the patient, even against the behest of the patient themselves; and despite this reality, I could probably go to my MD tomorrow and get a prescription for any type of disorder I want.
Deluded parents and their doctors, who have an incentive to do expensive procedures, facilitating often irreversible physical and psychological treatment for their "trans" children should be legal child abuse and malpractice. This I think is intuitively true to most sensible people, but also due to the totality of facts of the whole situation. But I think even well-meaning, self proclaimed "pro" LGBT activists are blinded by their desire to placate the immediate needs/wants of its constituents.
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Some American girls have had double mastectomies as young as 13. Planned Parenthood operates on an "informed consent" basis meaning that young people are briefed on "both the risks and the benefits" of cross-sex hormones and do not require a letter of referral from a therapist. The organization's website states: "If you are eligible, Planned Parenthood staff may be able to start hormone therapy as early as the first visit." Meanwhile, in 2015 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) awarded a $5.7 million taxpayer-funded grant for a five-year study on "the impact of early medical treatment in transgender youth." According to a progress report, the minimum age for the cross-sex-hormones cohort was decreased from 13 to eight.
