The statement followed a report in The Times that a federal health official had urged the removal of age minimums from treatment guidelines for transgender minors.
The draft guidelines would have lowered the age minimums to 14 for hormonal treatments, 15 for mastectomies, 16 for breast augmentation or facial surgeries, and 17 for genital surgeries or hysterectomies. The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether.
The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether.
The final guidelines, released in 2022, removed the age-based recommendations altogether.
Makes sense, a 6 year old won't have boobs to mastectomy and any adult trying to get a 6 year old a breast enhancement needs to be [redacted], pretty much all of medical science advocates against surgeries of this nature before a body is fully grown unless there something really REALLY serious to modify the risk assessment so having some legislative ban is just fucking ridiculous, facial surgeries are given to literal babies with cleft pallets, and puberty blockers aren't the same thing as E or T.
A two-page explainer on gender-affirming care that is frequently cited by federal officials stated that gender-affirming surgeries were “typically used in adulthood or case-by-case in adolescence,” leaving the door open to surgery for minors in some instances.
No shit, its all going to be case by fucking case. Transgender people aren't a fucking monolith, there won't be a one size fits all treatment that works for every transgender person. That's the whole fucking point of a person going to seek medical professionals in the first place, to figure their shit out with the professionals whose whole job is to have a good idea what can/needs to be done.
That's the whole problem of any type of legislation making a barrier between a patient and the whole of a nations medical system. You either make the rule because you're a bigot politican, or you make the rule because you're an ignorant politician. There is no third option
Makes sense, a 6 year old won't have boobs to mastectomy and any adult trying to get a 6 year old a breast enhancement needs to be [redacted], pretty much all of medical science advocates against surgeries of this nature before a body is fully grown unless there something really REALLY serious to modify the risk assessment so having some legislative ban is just fucking ridiculous, facial surgeries are given to literal babies with cleft pallets, and puberty blockers aren't the same thing as E or T.
No shit, its all going to be case by fucking case. Transgender people aren't a fucking monolith, there won't be a one size fits all treatment that works for every transgender person. That's the whole fucking point of a person going to seek medical professionals in the first place, to figure their shit out with the professionals whose whole job is to have a good idea what can/needs to be done.
That's the whole problem of any type of legislation making a barrier between a patient and the whole of a nations medical system. You either make the rule because you're a bigot politican, or you make the rule because you're an ignorant politician. There is no third option