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Actually I started reading more about it, and it is most definitely not always a bad idea. You just don't seem to know how to read (or think, for that matter) properly.

> There is no context that exists for that kind of irreversible damage at such a young age.

At 6, it's not irreversible. Even according that the article you linked yourself, surgery almost never happens before 18, the exceptions being sometimes 17 or 16 (not 6).

Some things are done a 6 (or earlier), called "social transitioning" first, and this is not irreversible at all.