Would your heart let you say that to the face of a trans person who got refused hormones or blockers as a teen and ended up being irreversibly mutilated as an adult? I wonder...
Yes, because this is simply a reality of life. It isn’t fair for anyone. We all have genetic and intrinsic shortcomings and weaknesses, illnesses and psychological variables.
Blocking puberty for someone who doesn’t feel comfortable in their body as a child doesn’t guarantee the person will be happy with their now altered body later, medical procedures or not. Most follow up studies seem to indicate the opposite though I’m sure we can cherry pick either way.
Nobody is born their ideal self. It’s a scale and we all suffer from it and have to work on it constantly. There is no magic button to swap someone’s body into their ideal self because at that age they can’t even know what that is; none of us knew before or during puberty. In fact I doubt even adults would know, but at least then you can take legal responsibility and not be manipulated as easily by external influences.
> Most follow up studies seem to indicate the opposite
Where are you getting this stuff? I haven't seen a single study indicating that! Dr Hilary Cass's team tried to find a single such study, and at the time of the Interim Cass Review, they'd failed to find any pretext to refuse such medical treatment. (I haven't read the final Cass Review, because by all reports it's bigoted, pseudoscientific twaddle with recommendations that violate the Nuremberg Code.)
You're completely wrong, here. https://slate.com/technology/2024/02/transgender-youth-healt... says much of what I would've said, better: I've talked to a couple of people who've detransitioned, and can confirm that it was entirely due to social pressures. (Not counting gender-fluid folk who've hormonally transitioned 3+ times, since that's better described as "retransition".)
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen. (At least until you've learned to distinguish uncomfortable truth from seductive lie.)
