No

It literally is none of our business. It is a private and personal medical decision process between the patient and their medical provider.

Kids should not undergo gender reassignment surgery due to concerns about their ability to make informed decisions and the need for careful evaluation and support.

I started hormones at 15, and I still think it's the best decision I have ever made. Without it, I probably would have taken my own life.

I think there is a lot going on in society right now, and people feel like they have to be a part of the LGBTQIA+ community. I also believe people need to undergo extensive counseling, screening, and therapy before any type of Gender Transitioning should be allowed or considered, including but not limited to hormonal therapy.

Let people have their genders, it ain’t no body’s business if I wanna be a girl a guy or a mushroom. I ain’t forcing anybody else to be one.

As a young person, you are constantly making different decisions. Your brain is not fully developed and if you make that decision to change your gender there is no going back.

Show me a teenager that is 100% certain that they know who they are, what they are all about. I will combat that most "adults" can and will not confidently claim they know who/what they believe. Gender reassignment and transition treatments are serious life decisions, that should not be taken lightly or on a teenage whim/trend. A woman who wants their tubes tied usually has to go through many obstacles to make such decisions at a young age. I am not saying that is right, however I think the same consideration should be taken when it comes to a "child" determining whether or not they relate to their gender.

The brain is incapable of making fully prudent and beneficial decisions until 24, so you should wait. Your body also isn't the thing that needs changing its your mind

Gender-affirming care can be life-saving to some transgender youth. Treatment like puberty blockers and hormone therapy are in many cases reversible up to a certain point and don't cause harm. Even in the minority of cases where it might, those conversations and decisions should be between the transgender patient and their doctor who will be more informed on the actual effects then the general public is.

People should have the freedom to transition, and it is shown to physically and psychologically help transgender people. There are very few detransitioners, and the few who do detransition mostly do it for reasons other than not being trans.

A child, under 18 years old, is not mentally developed and able to make the decision that is nearly irreversible.

In terms of gender transition, I've heard plenty of excuses on why I can't identify with my preferred gender, and I have yet to meet a single reason to rethink my decision. While I agree that young children should abstain from gender-reaffirming surgery until they are of age, I think anyone considering surgery should try living as their preferred gender first, see if they like it, and then later decide to fully transition. For those that present any other arguments related to being against transgender individuals, respectfully, it's none of their business to pry into other's personal lives.

While I do not understand the feeling of gender dysphoria, It is a mental problem that must be solved with the appropriate care to ensure that suicide rates go down and these people can be functioning members of our society, in order for these 2 goals to be met, Gender affirming care is the safest, and most humane way to go about this.

The government shouldn’t have the right to regulate someone’s private business. Being against something doesn’t mean it should be illegal.

Saying "No" to a transgender person is wrong, it is who they are and what they want to be...people are different but it is wrong to support someone who wants to change their body to how they feel is right to them. If they want to transition then you should be supportive because of what they have gone through in their life feeling trouble able themselves.

There are statistics saying that more people are committing suicide after they transition than before. Gender transitions are no good for anyone. They are bad for the patient and make things harder and more complicated for the people around them and in their lives.

it shows that the decisions give a huge boost in mental health. The % of trans kids who have mental issues is very high.

As a trans person, experiences with gender dysphoria can be intense and torturous, while medical gender transition is rare, it can be extremely necessary and helps to prevent dysphoria, as well as harassment and suicide. The even more pressing issue is increasing bans on social transition, such as banning the use of preferred names and pronouns which are a direct attack intending to isolate trans students and which results in increased harassment against and suicide among trans youth.

People under the age of 18 should be able to receive gender-transition treatments. Puberty blockers are completely reversible. I don't believe that anybody below 16 should receive permanent surgery to transition.

Children are forbidden from making inconsequential decisions like which doctor they go do and which school disctrict they're in; they aren't capable of understanding life-altering surgery.

People of any age should be allowed to identify with their chosen gender when you know you know even if you are young.

In some states, these bills propose that medical providers be prohibited from or penalized for providing transition-related medical care to minors, including temporary puberty blockers or hormone therapy. In other states, additional requirements—including increased training for medical providers and consent from all parents/guardians (even if the minor has no contact with all parents/guardians)—would delay access to potentially-life-saving care. Other bills also posit that school personnel would be required to report suspicions of gender nonconformity to parents/guardians, potentially endangering the children. Of the bills introduced in 2021, they were adopted in Arkansas and Tennessee. In Arkansas, four families of transgender youth and two doctors have challenged the law

If your parents have been taught that way too, then they’re probably gonna try to implement it on you and other kids and this sickening act will just continue

You are born in a body girl or boy and shouldnt change your reproductive organs because then you cant make babies for the next generation.

my argument is that it should be alowd at 16 because then they have had time to think it over and make sure that is what they realy want

There are studies shown that trans kids have a higher suicide rate when they are without gender affirming care than without and that gender dysphoria is a real thing and that HRT and the surgery help. Imagine if you were trapped in the body of the wrong gender. Would you want to go back to normal? if so you would then know how transgender kids feel every day ever since they were born.

I do not think that people under the age of 18 can do any transitioning surgery, as they might not have fully comprehended everything going on because they are so young. But I do think that they can use things like hormones therapy and puberty blockers, so they don't have to suffer and still have time to make a decision when they are old enough.

It's not reversible, that's been proven over and over.
If a you wouldn't let a kid get a tattoo then why would you let them be permanently chastrated.

like I said before, people used to just have to live with what they were born as, and they all lived way tougher lives than anyone today does, and if they could live with it, i'm sure anyone today should be just fine.

It should be treated as a botox thing, and have an age requirement for the position. But publicize the effects of surgery/hormone therapy.

Here are some health issues to be aware of and talk about with your healthcare provider.
Hormone issues. While transitioning, you'll take hormones to achieve masculine or feminine effects. ...
Cancer. ...
Mental health issues. ...
Sexually transmitted infections. ...
Substance abuse. ...
Heart disease. ...
Obesity.

from Google and it is just unnecessary.

As a transgender in the usa under 18 i think it is critical if the person is certain than i think they should be able to get gender affirming care as early as when they first hit puberty. if given too late it can be pretty devastating to a person.

Side effects of transitioning include, blood clots, gallstones, weight gain, acne, abnormal fats in blood, high concentration of red blood cells, and hair loss. Not to mention the effects of hormones in your brain that are from the other gender.

Side effects of transitioning include, blood clots, gallstones, weight gain, acne, abnormal fats in blood, high concentration of red blood cells, and hair loss. Not to mention the effects of hormones in your brain that are from the other gender.

There are cases of adults who transitioned as children and regret it. We need to learn more about them

The people undergoing these transitions, when adults, can do whatever they please. The government has no right to abridge this right.

You have rights to do what you want with your health. I may disagree, but we can still respect each others rights and freedoms to do as we please within our homes. Do not push your agenda on me or in our schools

Gender transition people change and have different views and many people who have transitioned a have regretted it and have also said that it didn’t make them feel any different then they did before other then they were the “opposite” gender.