[jcul]

I think the key thing is that these permanent procedures should not be performed on children / minors.

Personally, I was a very different person at 15 to 20 to 25. I don't really think a young person can make a rational decision on something that is going to affect the rest of their lives in such a dramatic way.

A 30 year old deciding to get gender reassignment surgery is very different to a 12 year old.

[howinteresting]

The problem is that being on the wrong set of hormones during your teenage years can fuck your body up.

I'd be more open to medical intervention post-18 if this problem didn't exist.

[filoleg]

> The problem is that being on the wrong set of hormones during your teenage years can fuck your body up.

That's pretty much the exact same reason for being against such hormonal treatments for minors as well.

[howinteresting]

Well, yeah, and the gold standard way of figuring out who would benefit from hormonal intervention is people's self-description.