Originally Posted by Chris

Yeah, only the chemical sterilisation occurs prior to them turning 18, though that in itself causes serious physical changes by preventing puberty occurring. plastic surgery follows when they’ve reached the age of adult consent - though how much genuine choice a young adult has after their body is rendered child-like thanks to un-evidenced use of puberty-blocking drugs is debatable.

I think the important thing here is that we stop using euphemisms. So-called ‘Gender affirming care’ is, to me, dangerously close to child abuse of mentally fragile young people and ‘gender reassignment surgery’ in fact reassigns nothing. It is plastic surgery which only compounds a profound error of clinical care.

A woman is an adult human female. A man is an adult human male. Sex is immutable. Our health services would do better to focus on helping young people to be resilient in the face of biological reality rather than medicalising the highly contentious pseudoscience known as ‘queer theory’.