Yes, a very few of them. They'll lose, because they had parental consent and the minor insisted they were the other gender.
The left keeps saying that very few children get gender affirming care, and a tiny fraction of those get the surgeries before 18. So how few is very few of a tiny group like that?
How do you know that they insisted that they were the other gender? How do you know that they did not get an early diagnosis and then experienced pressure not to change their minds. Have you verified this with each and every case?
I believed you when you said that about Chloe, who is sueing, but now I'm wondering where you got the information that she "stomped her little feet" and demanded the surgery. Why did she need to stomp her feet? Are you seriously telling me that the Gender Specialist did not want to go through with the surgery, and her mom was skeptical, but those adults gave into a kid?
IRRC, she talked about having multiple mental disorders along with the Gender Dyphoria. That is very common, according to the DSV-V. She is rightfully angry that the adults around her chose to mutilate her secondary sex organs instead of providing the mental health therapies any counseling intern should have seen that she needed.
Again I ask: given the propensity of children to petulantly demand things that are not good for them, why is so-called "consent of the child" even part of the debate?
I did nothing of the sort. I just pointed out that once you allow adults to second guess medical treatments they got as children, you've pretty much made pediatric medicine impossible. Given the high rate of suicide among transgender people who don't get treatment, non-treatment of Gender Dysphoria can be as fatal as non-treatment for cancer.
The suicide rate of all transgenders is shockingly high, and there is no valid clinical study that shows that gender-affirming care reduces that rate in the slightest.
Transgender and nonbinary youths, a population with an exceptional risk of suicide and poor mental health outcomes, were found to have 60% lower odds of depression after receiving gender-affirming intervention.
www.hcplive.com
I want to comment on that article, but I want you to first tell me honestly if you read it?
There's also substantial evidence that gender affirming care given early can reduce suicide risks.
Transgender and nonbinary youths, a population with an exceptional risk of suicide and poor mental health outcomes, were found to have 60% lower odds of depression after receiving gender-affirming intervention.
www.hcplive.com
Did you read that one also? I mean thoroughly, and you accept what it says, even in the last few paragraphs?
I won't dwell on that point. I'll assume that you did read it and do accept it, so:
That article talks about things like suicidality and depression, not suicide itself. The evidence it cites are not stats about suicide, but self-reports from members of the transgender community. Former transgenders, like Chloe are most often excluded form the surveys. Anyone who can read the survey can easily figure out its purpose and which answers would best serve its purpose.
Even if the improved outcomes are true, those "studies," did nothing to separate the results of surgeries and hormones from the results of the counselling, therapies, and support that nearly always accompany such treatments.
What is needed are long-term studies about suicide among transgenders with the surgery and hormones as children and those without. Right now, we have no long-term studies, because this insanity has been so recent. Unfortunately, the American left doesn't want science, they want to stomp their little feet and get what they want RIGHT NOW.
Not at all... Once you get into "My parents made medical decisions for me I disagree with, so I'm suing", pediatric medicine will be a thing of the past. No one would take the liability.
Of course they would. They would pay more for insurance and keep raking in that Obamacare money for surgeries that harm children.
Or . . . the country turns to more heavily regulated/government medicine as they have in Europe where the more enlightened countries are braking hard on gender-affirming care for kids. I believe the profit motive, but I also recognize that it sometimes leads to profit-seekers putting the dollar over the well-being of the people they serve. GA care is a prime example of that.
Well, that's an easy one. A tatoo provides no medical benefit. Gender affirming care does.
What is the medical benefit that over-rides the harm of chemically and surgically castrating a child, or removing their secondary sexual organs? Stick to medical benefits, not mental, since we've discussed the mental health outcomes.
How is the child's body more healthy after such procedures?