Is Gender-Affirming Care for Minors Child Abuse or Lifesaving Medicine?

You call it 'lifesaving,' but let’s call it what it really is: a dangerous experiment on minors who cannot legally consent to a tattoo or a nose job, yet you’d let them consent to lifelong sterility and irreversible bodily changes. Puberty blockers are not a 'pause button'—they are a medical intervention that halts normal development, and the long-term effects on bone density, brain development, and sexual function are largely unknown. The 'reversibility' you tout is a myth: when you block puberty, you often prevent the completion of sexual maturation, and the majority of kids who start blockers go on to cross-sex hormones, which are permanent. So don’t gaslight us with your 'pause' nonsense—this is a conveyor belt to lifelong medical dependency. Your cherry-picked studies are a joke. The '41% suicide attempt rate' you cite is from a study of self-selected, highly distressed individuals, not a representative sample, and it’s been widely criticized for methodological flaws. Meanwhile, the evidence for gender-affirming care’s benefits is weak, with no randomized controlled trials—only observational data that’s often confounded by mental health treatment. You claim to follow 'the science,' but real science demands caution when intervening on developing bodies. In contrast, the evidence that many youth with gender dysphoria outgrow it—especially when it emerges in childhood—is robust. Up to 80% of kids with gender dysphoria resolve it by adulthood if left untreated. So your 'lifesaving' care may actually be causing the very distress it claims to cure. You accuse us of 'bigotry,' but that’s a deflection from the real issue: the medical establishment’s rush to affirm every child’s declared identity without rigorous psychological evaluation. In the past, kids with gender dysphoria were often struggling with other issues—autism, trauma, depression—that were being masked by a gender fixation. Now, clinics are pushing hormones within weeks of a first visit, a practice that would be considered malpractice in any other field. And what about the detransitioners? You dismiss them as '<1%,' but that figure is misleading—it only counts those who formally regret, not those who quietly stop because they’ve been harmed. These are real people, like Chloe Cole and Keira Bell, who are now permanently scarred, fighting to undo what you call 'care.' Your 'love' for trans kids is conditional on them following your ideology. But true compassion means protecting children from irreversible decisions they’re too young to understand. You say we’re 'erasing' trans kids, but we’re the ones fighting for their right to grow up and make informed choices as adults. You’ve turned a vulnerable population into a political tool, and you’re willing to sacrifice their bodies for your ideology. That’s not medicine—that’s abuse. And history will judge you harshly for it.