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13-Year-Old Rape Victim Forced to Give Birth Due to Mississippi’s Abortion Ban
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What would have been the issue? How about if they had more attempts on their own life and succeeded?
I prefer for my fellow Lemmy users to stay alive and mentally well.
Plus let’s remember they were working with a doctor who DID make them wait.
I think there was another comment that presented what most likely happened a little clearer and made much more sense. I think I can agree with. It mentioned breast reduction surgery which is already done on people 16 years old not relating to trans stuff. If that's the case, it makes much more sense to me.
I was mostly pointing out the odd fact that the original argument was that there wasn't surgery done on minors and then proceeded to support it by saying surgery was done on them while they were a minor.
While I understand the suicide aspect, there are alternatives to managing those kinds of issues that don't involve surgery.
Surgery was not done on me as a minor. I was put on HRT as a minor. I could not, LEGALLY, get any kind of surgery before I was an adult.
16 is considered an adult on your country?
This sounds a lot like recommending treating a kids broken leg exclusively with painkillers until they are adults because they might regret the treatment. While it technically might remove the most painful symptoms, it will let the problem get harder and harder to do anything about while the risk of regret for treatment is exceptionally low.
The amount of children that grow up to realize they weren't actually trans is miniscule while the amount that, when not supported, attempt and sometimes succeed suicide is staggering. Social and later possibly medically assisted transition is the single most effective way to prevent these suicides that we know of. Keeping it from being available to children who need it, is to accept more of them will die.
I believe you want to do good, but i think you have been misinformed. Gender affirming care is on of the medical procedures with the lowest regret rate. Knee surgeries are many times more likely to be regretted. If the examples of regret should keep children from the procedure, we would have to stop giving children surgeries at all and stop many other procedures as well to stay consistent.
Someone else in the comment section somewhere gave some links that I can go over relating specifically to what you're saying.
I'm taking a look over them to help form an opinion. Haven't look at enough to really say any more on the matter yet. Although, I really don't think that some of the concerns brought up on the other side is completely off-base either.