Transgendered children

[Regina]

If a child's brain is still developing, and they have yet to experience enough of life to process  the various cultural biases and influences on their sense of self to truly and confidently formulate their own identity, isn't there something inherently risky and inadvisable in giving them the choice to take drugs or undergo surgeries that may entail irreversible consequences?

I can agree with that if you're talking about a child who is just going through a phase or an experimental period. However, if you're talking about a child who has consistently been saying "I'm not the right gender" from age 4, 5, 6 all the way down to 10 and beyond, I think you can assume they're pretty sure. That's what the girl in the news article was like, they said she'd known since she was 3. That's not "a phase".

As we've already established as well, all they are doing with these kids is postponing puberty. That's completely reversible if they change their mind, well I think until they're like mid-teens anyway. There's no surgery or hormone treatment until they are adults or almost adults.