"Reconsidering Informed Consent for Trans-Identified Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults"
"In less than a decade, the western world has witnessed an unprecedented rise in the numbers of children and adolescents seeking gender transition. Despite the precedent of years of gender-affirmative care, the social, medical and surgical interv…
"Reconsidering Informed Consent for Trans-Identified Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults"
"In less than a decade, the western world has witnessed an unprecedented rise in the numbers of children and adolescents seeking gender transition. Despite the precedent of years of gender-affirmative care, the social, medical and surgical interventions are still based on very low-quality evidence. The many risks of these interventions, including medicalizing a temporary adolescent identity, have come into a clearer focus through an awareness of detransitioners."
"Reconsidering Informed Consent for Trans-Identified Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults"
"In less than a decade, the western world has witnessed an unprecedented rise in the numbers of children and adolescents seeking gender transition. Despite the precedent of years of gender-affirmative care, the social, medical and surgical interventions are still based on very low-quality evidence. The many risks of these interventions, including medicalizing a temporary adolescent identity, have come into a clearer focus through an awareness of detransitioners."
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0092623X.2022.2046221
I agree: "Adulthood? It's your body to screw up. Knock yourself out, just don't look for sympathy when you end up ruined for life."
I would just say "if/when" instead-a "when," but that's just me.
"temporary adolescent identity"
If a girl wants to listen to a Korean smile-band that's her business. If she wants to tattoo her face with their album cover, that should be denied.
But now she wants her uterus and breasts removed with as much good cause as listening to BTS: because all her friends do.