Why Do Liberals Ignore Science Regarding Transgender Surgery for Minors?

[Mac-7]

They don’t make the decision

Its the children who are allegedly demanding a sex change

Or chemical treatment toward a sex change

So the final decision is theirs

 

[Crepitus]

Science has known for at least 30 years now that the reasoning part of the human brain does not fully develop until ages 21-25 (LINK, LINK, LINK). Even before neuroscience developed, society already recognized that minors are simply not qualified or equipped to make certain decisions on their own.

A 14-year-old girl or a 16-year-old boy, much less an 11-year-old girl or a 12-year-old boy, are in no position to decide whether to have their sexual organs permanently altered. We need to protect our children from being talked into getting such major irreversible surgery.

We don't let 15-year-old boys join the military. We don't let 13-year-old kids start smoking cigarettes. We don't let 12-year-old kids buy alcohol. We don't let 14-year-old girls get breast-enlargement surgery. We have these sensible, protective, and humane laws because we all know that those young people are not equipped or qualified to decide to do those things.

We also have very different legal punishments for minors who commit crimes compared to the punishments for adults who commit crimes, precisely because we recognize that a minor's decision-making ability is inferior and incomplete.

Transgender surgery is not "gender-affirming surgery"--it is gender-denying surgery. It ignores biological science and biological reality.

Lots of adolescents and teens go through a phase where they feel they identify more with the opposite gender. As late as the 1990s, girls who felt this way were commonly called "Tom boys." But in most cases, they eventually grew out of it as they matured and as the reasoning part of their brain completed its development. Those few who did not grow out of it were typically people who succumbed to the temptation of same-sex attraction and who chose to engage in homosexual conduct. However, a sizable percentage of people who identify as gay or lesbian for years eventually change their minds and revert to being heterosexual. Google "PFOX."

There should be a federal ban on transgender surgery for anyone under the age of 21. If a 21-year-old wants to get the surgery, that's up to them. I feel sorry for them, but that's their call. But, for heaven's sake, let's protect our children from being talked into getting their sexual organs permanently altered.

A Tidal Wave of Transgender Regret for Hundreds of People: 'They Don't Feel Better for It'

In the aftermath of media promotion of the transgender movement, many people now regret choosing a different gender and have begun detransitioning.

cmsedit.cbn.com

‘I literally lost organs:’ Why detransitioned teens regret changing genders

A look at the alarming rise of teens who are changing genders and then “detransitioning” back.

nypost.com

Ex-Navy SEAL who detransitioned warns transgender teens: âYou need to slow downâ

A former Navy SEAL who came out as transgender and later detransitioned is warning teens and young Americans to exercise extreme caution when considering gender affirming surgery – saying “you need…

nypost.com

Sex Reassignment Doesn’t Work. Here Is the Evidence.

Sex “reassignment” doesn’t work. It’s impossible to “reassign” someone’s sex physically, and attempting to do so doesn’t produce good outcomes psychosocially.

www.heritage.org

Nobody is giving gender surgery to minors.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

But they are individual accounts. Not a look at the overall and complete picture. Science is based on information. The Right normally rejects science in favor of a skewed version of religion.

But in this case. We need to know. Especially if we are talking about banning them.

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Uncle Saul must be very proud of you.








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[HeyNorm]

Why do MAGA MAGGOTS, who believe that Government should NOT be deciding health care keep do ing exactly that?

Stay away from children.

 

[WEATHER53]

Science does not waver to feelings, that’s why

 

[WEATHER53]

Stay away from children.

Are we allowed now to call child weirdos by their prescribed name?

 

[HeyNorm]

They don’t make the decision

Oh, so someone else makes the decision on their behalf!

That really doesn’t bolster your argument.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Are we allowed now to call child weirdos by their prescribed name?

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Don't think so. Not yet.

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[TheGreatSatan]

America as we know it doesn't exist anymore and has not since 1945.

^^^ WEF/Democrat shills and bots do nothing but gaslight Americans.

 

[WEATHER53]

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Don't think so. Not yet.

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Kind of an odd protection

 

[SavannahMann]

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Uncle Saul must be very proud of you.








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Don’t blame me. You are the ones claiming God wants things to be legislated and decided by the courts in ways that the Bible doesn’t say.

 

[Mac-7]

Nobody is giving gender surgery to minors.

Wrong

Trans kids' treatment can start younger, new guidelines say

A leading transgender health association has lowered its recommended minimum age for gender transition treatment in teens, including starting sex hormones at age 14 and some surgeries at 15.

apnews.com

 

[rightwinger]

Oh, so someone else makes the decision on their behalf!

That really doesn’t bolster your argument.

Why wouldn’t it?

You really think a child is going to say….I want to be a girl and that anyone will let him

It is not a decision that is made lightly. Parents consult with medical experts and other experts in the field.
The child must dress and act in the other sex for a period of time before any medications are given
Again, no surgery is performed at that time

 

[bdtex]

Pretty damn funny seeing a USMBcon posting about ignoring science.

 

[Zincwarrior]

MAGA are terrified of 1% of 1%. its sad and distracting from real problems of incest/rape and the fact your kids are leaving your bumfuck nowhere to be with actual people.

 

[j-mac]

deference to medical science and the FREEBOM of individuals seems to be the liberal position here. what is wrong with that?

Children.

 

[Hollie]

A common myth being by those who spread misinformation on the transgendered

The reality is that surgery is never performed on young children. The reality is that most transgenders do not get genital surgery.
Children never make the decision alone. to undergo procedures related to changing their gender. That decision is made by the child, parents and medical professionals based on extensive evaluation

Transgender services offered to children

Evaluation and consultation with medical professionals
Child is required to start living as the alternate sex
Puberty Blockers are administered to stop the appearance of sexual traits
As late teens, hormone therapy.

Genital Surgery is only begun after they are adults and most Transexuals never receive it

The common lie told by child groomers is that surgery is never performed on young children. It's difficult to deny that a 13 year old is not a young child. While we often associate FGM with third world backwaters, the left is trying to legitimize a version of that barbarism.

The notion that most transgenders do not get genital surgery is meaningless because changing one's gender is a meaningless term. The angry left can make all the silky arguments they want about 'gender' but they're really hoping to legitimize cross-dressing as tranny.

Evaluation and consultation with medical professionals is problematic when an identifiable portion of medical 'professionals' are the very people coercing children to take dangerous, life altering drugs and actually proposing FGM.

The reprehensible left begins their grooming with children in third and fourth grade understanding that younger, more impressionable victims make easier targets.

 

[j-mac]

How many minors have had major surgery to change their body parts?

" 3678 (7.7%) were aged12 to 18 years. When stratified by the type of procedure performed, breast and chest procedures made up a greater percentage of the surgical interventions in younger patients..."

National Estimates of Gender-Affirming Surgery in the US

This cohort study examines trends in inpatient and outpatient gender-affirming surgical procedures in the US and explores the temporal trends in the types of procedures across age groups.

jamanetwork.com

 

[Hollie]

Aside from some minor surgery to correct problems of intersex children no surgeon will operate on a healthy child . Don't fall for these liars.

Your conspiracy theory is that 13 and 14 year old children are not undergoing mutilating surgeries?

 

[Hollie]

Nobody is giving gender surgery to minors.

Buffoon.

Number of transgender children seeking treatment surges in U.S.

About 42,000 U.S. children ages 6 to 17 were diagnosed with gender dysphoria in 2021, nearly triple the number in 2017, a unique data analysis for Reuters found.

www.reuters.com