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CMV: 18 should be the minimum age for any surgeries or hormone therapy relating to treatment for being transgender .

I am in no way discounting the experience of transgender people and have no idea what they go through and never want to minimize it. I absolutely believe it is real and should be taken seriously . However, I think it is too risky to allow someone below the age of legal consent to undergo possible permanent changes as such . 

I think therapy should continue , and reassurance that at 18 (maybe even 16) they can transition with these things should continue , and pronouns should be properly aligned with what they identify . 

It worries me that not only is there a chance they may change their mind , but also they will be susceptible to more trauma undergoing this type of experience at a young age . 

I also feel ,starting at a young age almost traps you in  even if you do want to change your mind. 

Possible sterilization in itself to me is enough for that decision to be put on hold . 

So many things people feel a child can not decide or be sure on until 18 . Can’t even be trusted to drink alcohol until 21 here in the states . No tattoos ... things referencing the body .

ÉDIT: Thank You for all of your responses! I have concluded that it is uncertain and could go bad either way , so allowing people to decide for themself and just hope for the best may be the best option .
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Such a policy would cause a great deal of unnecessary harm for transgender teens.  Going through the wrong puberty creates irreversible physical changes they can only partially correct at great expense and pain later.

Certainly puberty blockers should be prescribable at an earlier age. It’s not as if people are getting these treatments as a first response to their issues. That’s a consequence of a long history of gender dysphoria.

Denying effective drug-based treatment before 18 is a serious cruelty to transgender teens. It causes unnecessary suffering and puts them at significantly increased risk of suicide. The suicide problem is so severe that denying them treatment is akin to denying them life-saving medical treatments. 

We allow teenagers to undergo many types of serious but necessary medical treatments before they’re 18, even treatments with serious long-term consequences. Certainly the medical consequences of, say, gastric bypass surgery are much less reversible than puberty blockers. But essentially nobody is disputing the medical efficacy of gastric bypass surgery for morbidly obese teenagers. 

Treatment should be permitted when the risks of delaying treatment exceed the risks of the treatment itself. That is certainly justified in the case of transitioning for transgender teenagers, given the extremely high rate of suicide without treatment.

The main point of contention that people have with prevailing right-wing policy on this is that the laws that right wing governments are passing also include the puberty blockers. They’re effectively criminalizing effective medical treatment for transgender teens, which is incredibly harmful given the insanely high suicide rate for untreated gender dysphoria and lifetime cost and suffering caused by corrective surgery as an adult. 

Very, very few doctors will sign off on SRS before 18. It’s essentially a nonexistent procedure for people that young. Therefore there’s no particular need to legislate it, and especially not when that legislation is being used as a vehicle for much more punishing anti-transgender laws that interfere with much more common medical treatments appropriate for teenagers.

Medicine should not be politicized in the first place, and this is an especially cruel politicization of medicine that does actually harm teenagers.