Those risks, options and long term effects are best decided by those who actually deal with the child and can decide a best course of action. That includes the child, parents and medical professionals
Well after the child understand sexuality, and the entire gambit, which doesn't hit until puberty. Would you want your child to go through some form of HRT, surgeries and to then never experience full sexual gratification?
Republicans who are biased against transexuality and are offended by it are not the ones to make the decisions for the child.
And not all republicans are. Stop throwing all republicans into the same bath water. There are plenty that want bipartisan conversations. There are plenty, like me, who is very conservative when it comes to gov't, taxes, economy, etc., but also believe that homosexuality is real and those people have rights. But, I also feel that we are going TOO far.
I've said it before; for 1000s of years, homosexuals lived in various modern societies (for their time) and their sexuality was openly accepted. They also lived their life within their biological bodies and found like minded people to explore and live within their sexuality, happily.
Today, cosmetic surgery is being touted as some life saving "Healthcare" and that is bunk. We can thank the the Christian ideology in American for shaming homosexuality or Bisexuals to living a life of shame. However that shame has been removed. That's a great step. But now we want to take even further by potentially confusing children about their sexuality, administering life long changing therapy, when the child has no experience of sex or to fully understand what it means? Come on, if you don't see a problem with that, than you and many other are drinking the progressive, liberal kool-aid. But I'm sure there are some democrats who line up with me.