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Originally Posted by Hugh
I agree with a number of your points, but you did say
I too, have concerns around children who believe they have gender dysmorphia being prescribed drugs, but I also believe it’s important to base arguments/positions on fact-based positions (as far as possible, due to a paucity of research in this subject), rather than on things that haven’t happened (in the U.K.).
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Granted, plastic surgery on minors for gender ‘treatment’ doesn’t happen in the UK, however there are, for example,
hundreds of documented cases of double mastectomy amongst girls aged between 12 and 17 in the USA. It is a fact-based position, though one I could have made more clearly. It is important that we don’t artificially restrict ourselves to considering only the UK because the cultural and academic forces at play here do not respect borders. Advocates and critics are heard across the Atlantic and relevant medical studies draw on cases from across Europe and the world.