Abolish All Gender-Affirming Care for Minors?

Your impassioned defense of gender-affirming care ignores a fundamental truth: children are not capable of making life-altering decisions about their fertility, sexual function, or long-term health. The 'reversible' puberty blockers you tout are not a harmless pause—they are a chemical experiment with unknown long-term effects on bone density, brain development, and fertility. When you push these drugs on a 12-year-old, you are not affirming their identity; you are affirming a diagnosis that is often transient. Studies show that up to 80% of children with gender dysphoria eventually outgrow it by adulthood. Yet activists rush to lock them into a medical pathway before their brains are fully formed. That is not compassion; it is reckless experimentation on minors who cannot consent to permanent sterility or a lifetime of medical dependence. You accuse us of 'erasing' trans youth, but it is you who are erasing the child’s future autonomy. What about the detransitioners—young women and men who were pushed into treatment, only to realize later it was a mistake? They are the collateral damage of your ideology. They face irreversible changes—deepened voices, facial hair, mastectomy scars—and then are told they were 'never truly trans.' Their stories are silenced by activists who claim to champion diversity but refuse to acknowledge the diversity of outcomes. Our 'protection' is not a death sentence; it is a safeguard against a medical industry that profits from confused children and guilt-ridden parents. We are not banning care; we are demanding evidence, caution, and the right of a child to grow into their own identity without being rushed into a scalpel or a syringe. And your appeal to parental rights is a red herring. Parents are not medical experts, and their love can be blinded by fear of losing a child to suicide. But the suicide risk you cite is often driven by social rejection, not lack of medical intervention. In countries like Sweden and inland, which have restricted youth gender care, they have seen no increase in suicide rates—instead, they emphasize psychotherapy, not hormones. The real child abuse is telling a struggling teen that their body is wrong and that drugs are the only answer, when what they truly need is mental health support to navigate their confusion. You call it 'genocide of identity,' but we call it protecting childhood. Let kids be kids. Let them explore gender without medicalizing their every doubt. The state has a duty to protect children from irreversible mistakes, even when their parents are complicit. That is not tyranny; that is responsibility.