It’s just wild that we remove sexual organs -which is irreversible- from those who aren’t sexually mature yet, rather than relying on therapeutics that are reversible until they’re of age. Especially since so many trans youth also suffer from other mental heath issues. Those issues at least should be looked into and treated prior to moving forward with organ removal.
Then don’t over exaggerate. You talk about it being wild that this is happening to people below sexual maturity and now by your own admission, even the youngest in the US wouldn’t fit that criteria.
Furthermore less than 1% of patients who undergo these surgeries show regret. This is a pretty solid demonstration that people aren’t going into this blind or without thought. The standard medical guidelines work, and your concern continues to show ignorance of the subject. And of course gender isn’t the same as sex, that’s the whole point of the surgeries.
I’m not over exaggerating, but maybe the term sexual maturity hit a snag? If we go by puberty, you’re right that the ages of people having their sexual organs removed (13 at the youngest from what I’ve seen for breast removal). Is over puberty, but they’re hardly mature to make sexual decisions. It’s the same reasoning behind why we make it a crime to have sexual relations with minors - they’re not mature enough both of mind and body to do so. To me it’s wild that its okay for one, but not the other.
From the studies I’ve read, we haven’t tracked regret in those underage (because there’s not many who have done so yet), so the very few who have, we’re experimenting on with zero studies done (though I’m sure they’re currently being studied now, we just won’t know the results until years from now).
I’d also like to know how long they were tracked for. If you can link to a long term study, I’d like to read through it.
So, living as the opposite gender doesn’t mean they’ll do well living as the opposite sex also then. Don’t get me wrong, they’re more likely too, so I’m glad that, at least, is in place.
There aren’t really studies targeting below 18 individuals because it isn’t the standard of medical care.
This is an excellent look at the Oregon Health and Science University. They had 6 individuals out of almost 2000 who sought reversal. 5 of those were not their original patients so did not go through their pre surgery procedures.
This is a systemic review looking at others research into this topic that finds a slightly higher but similar level of regret, around 1%.