Is castrating young boys ethical?

[TaraJo]

Yes, it can happen and it's rare but it's getting a bit more common. Kim Petras has made news as the youngest person to undergo sex reassignment surgery at 16, but there's a big difference between a 'sex change' and preservation of a singing voice.

Wrong. Reimer was 22 months old when he underwent sex reassignment surgery. Worse still, it was under the recommendation of a trumped-up psychologist, John Money, and not a psychiatrist/physician. Money counted this case as a success, Reimer blew his head off with a sawn-off shotgun at age 38. Fair to say he disagreed with Money....

You are correct, sir...... sort of. He had his testies removed at a young age, but no surgery past that. I think the most importat difference between David Reimer and Kim Petras was consent: David was too young to give consent and, obviously didn't want this, but Kim did.

It's one thing to allow them to live as the other gender, it's another to give them hormones or surgery.

Surgery, yes, that's not exactly reversable. Hormones are a totally different story.

First off, our bodies are gonna get some kind of hormone one way or another. I mean, if you don't start some kind of hormone, a male body is going to wind up being filled with testosterone which can result with many other problems later on. Hormone blockers without estrogen, at very least, can be an option for a while. Even estrogen itself isn't going to kick in right away. Give that to a young child and they probably won't notice any effect for at least 2 or 3 months. Even up to about six months, everything from estrogen will reverse itself if you simply stop taking estrogen.

This doesn't even mention how much easier it can make the rest of our lives if we get into hormones before male puberty makes changes to our body that cant' be reversed. I mean, do you have any idea how difficult it is for me to find women's shoes in size 11? The world also isn't exactly filled with women's clothes for a woman who's 5'10.