[engineer_22]

Good sport. :)

>That's a good devil's advocate, but it's worth pointing out minor children consent (with parental consent, too) to surgeries all the time. Whether that's cancer treatments, surgeries to repair bone fractures, plastic surgeries, etc.

Minor children CANNOT CONSENT. Bottom Line. Minor children cannot consent because they are not given the faculty of consent in common law. A parent's consent is ALWAYS required, and the parent is culpable for that decision.

>Gender affirming care appears to be what's best for kids according to the majority of research and the major medical associations in the US. The experts certainly could be wrong, but generally speaking I prefer having doctors treating me in a hospital and pilots flying my planes.

Our society is not technocratic. "Right and wrong" are decided by the People. Medical experts are not the arbiters of social acceptability or law.

[dinosaurdynasty]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_of_minors legally it's not quite that simple

[engineer_22]

Had to be "that guy"

:)

There's a pdf linked below that includes the laws for consent of minors to medical treatment.