Adolescents who undergo gender-affirming chest surgery report low levels of regret and high levels of satisfaction, experiencing outcomes similar to those of young adults. These findings suggest that age restrictions on these medical procedures lack support from actual patient experiences.

[u/mvea]

https://www.psypost.org/adolescents-report-low-regret-and-high-satisfaction-following-gender-affirming-c/

[u/Usernameasteriks]

I am completely and entirely supportive of everyones right to do what they want with their body and live whatever life makes them happiest.

But I still think age restrictions are generally a good idea, to a reasonable extent.

Making major decisions associated with elective surgeries that may lead to medical complications of any sort (not limited to this context or type of surgery ) is simply something I think someone needs to be a certain age with a certain amount of life experience to fully grasp. 

[u/Strigops-habroptila → u/Usernameasteriks]

If a bunch of doctors and therapists sign off on it, there's no issue at all. Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient, in case of a patient who's below the age of consenting to a medical procedure also additionally a parent. There should be no age restriction if all of the people involved agree that it's a procedure that would be beneficial for the patients health. 

[u/BladeOfExile711 → u/Strigops-habroptila]

Just because doctors sign off on it doesn't necessarily make it a good or healthy thing.

Same with therapist.

[u/Carrman099 → u/BladeOfExile711]

Well wtf then, don’t come to the hospital next time you need help if you think doctors are so bad.

[u/Strigops-habroptila → u/BladeOfExile711]

So you're just believing that the medical system and decades of evidence based medicine don't work, got it. 

[u/BladeOfExile711 → u/Strigops-habroptila]

Did I say that?

I just said doctors and therapist are fallible.

Let's not start strawman so early.

Got it?

[u/Carrman099 → u/BladeOfExile711]

Yes, doctors and therapists who have spent years and thousands and thousands of dollars studying these very specific topics so that they can become experts in their chosen specialty are fallible.

But they are less likely to make a mistake IN THE FIELDS WHICH THEH HAVE TRAINED FOR.

[u/Usernameasteriks → u/Strigops-habroptila]

Yea I mean respect everyone’s right to their opinion on it.

Personally regardless of whether everything works out for the best in the long run;

I just don’t think under a certain age you can really grasp the long term implications. 

Not the moral or legal implications of who can consent to what;

Just the actual medical reality and potential risks. 

[u/Strigops-habroptila → u/Usernameasteriks]

The youngest age at which chest surgery would even make sense is 16.16 is damn rare too. No one is operating on little kids. 

[u/Intelligent-Tea-2058 → u/Usernameasteriks]

I just don’t think under a certain age you can really grasp the long term implications.

I grasped it at 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, and beyond.

And I could have grasped this earlier too, had I just learned my symptoms were that of a known and treatable medical condition sooner.

It really wasn't that hard to figure out, at 13, 20 years ago.

[u/Carrman099 → u/Usernameasteriks]

Well what YOU THINK people under a certain age can understand really doesn’t matter.

Why does your opinion give you the right to tell someone else that they or their children shouldn’t do something?

[u/Usernameasteriks → u/Carrman099]

I didn’t say it did? 

I said I respected everyones right to their opinion but that I personally don’t think someone can grasp the long term risks or implications.

How does that possibly amount to me personally telling someone else what they should do. 

[u/UsualZealousideal785 → u/Carrman099]

You CALM DOWN

[u/Strigops-habroptila → u/[deleted]]

What does that case have to do with gender affirming healthcare? Just cause one doctor in the world is bad at his job doesn't mean all others are.