602 18 and under very quickly halves when you take out the 18-year olds. I notice they don’t list it by age any further than saying the youngest was 14.
So we’re looking at 60 teens a year and all we know is that they’re either. 14, 15, 16, or 17. We don’t know what their general health, specifically their mental health, was like before that surgery or what the trajectory of it would be like had they not had it.
I’m not coming down on either side of this argument because I wasn’t a trans teen and I’m not the parent of a teenager who’s going through it - but for those who say “it shouldn’t be allowed”, I’d encourage restraint on having an opinion if there is no immediate experience of it
If you think that, you really should probably get your head checked. Nobody is going to undergo such surgery just to “fit in” to a minority. This is the problem with the internet, everyone thinks they’re an expert when mostly they’re talking out of their bottoms