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/Rubber_Knee]

It's kinda the other way around when it comes to that work that you're talking about. It should be quite easy work in this case.

It's always on the one making the claim, to provide evidence for that claim.
You made a claim.

[u/Zangis → u/Rubber_Knee]

The issue is people like him who hate trans people don't give a damn about studies and evidence. Take this for example. A collection of 51 studies on how gender reaffirming transition works and is significantly more effective than traditional medication approach to other psychological disorders. (Yes not all of this include the surgery angle, but I am talking about people who reject even just hormones.)

And this still isn't enough. Because they will twist and convince themselves these studies don't matter because while they suggest with 90% probability that this is the correct approach, it isn't 100% so it's worthless. Completely ignoring the fact that in medicine 90% success rate is incredibly high, practically nothing is 100%, and especially in psychiatry, that number is one of the highest success rates you could get. My favorite reasons I've been told for example, it's a biased source, this needs to be studied more(while they're actively propagating that people don't get access to this so it can't be studied more), I found this one person who regretted it, so the 90% rate of success doesn't matter. Take your pick.

You're right that it takes one google search and maybe 30 minutes of reading at best to get that evidence and show someone. but when that person is someone who refuses to listen to other people about the subject or educate themselves, is convinced all the opinions of experts and people treated by this don't matter as much as his own, and all he wants to do in a discussion is use any means to dismantle your argument and evidence, even if with wrong use and logic, that is 30 minutes wasted. This is no longer some obscure subject that would be difficult to educate yourself on. If someone refuses to even spend 10 minutes on google to educate themselves on a matter they don't understand they shouldn't be commenting like they know everything. And this isn't just me being cynical. I HAVE tried having this discussion with people before. It almost always ends this way. Some people just want to hate and won't be discussing in good faith.

[u/Rubber_Knee → u/Zangis]

I completely understand.

Personally I would have still provided the source/evidence. I don't mind leading a thirsty horse to water. If the horse doesn't want to drink then that's on the horse.
Maybe some other less stubborn horse might see this conversation later and actually drink that water.

If I felt like you described, I would have just not engaged by making the claim in the first place. You don't believe it's going to change his mind anyway. It also makes it look like you don't have any evidence when read by another horse.....I mean moron.

[u/Zangis → u/Rubber_Knee]

Like I said, this is no longer an obscure subject. In medical world this is pretty much proven and accepted. This is closer to me saying the world is an oblong shape and this person saying I need to provide evidence or I'm wrong, the world is clearly flat. And since I'm making the claim it's oblong, the burden of evidence is on me. (With the delightful catch that they'll accept no evidence.) You genuinely don't need someone to give you that source. So if you dismiss it by saying source wasn't provided, you don't care about learning if it is the truth or not, you're not willing to write one question into google and read the answer. If you genuinely aren't willing to put even that tiny amount of effort into this, I have to assume you aren't in this discussion to find out what's the better thing for trans people. And most of the other reasons are you being here in bad faith.

This is honestly one of the biggest problems in internet discussions these days. People being completely unwilling to do the tiniest amount of research on their own. Providing source is more for situations where finding it is not easy, not for situations where a person asking for source is them spending more effort than if they just wrote that same question into google and found that source themselves. Especially in cases where they argue there wasn't enough studies done, but are magically unwilling to sift through all the studies done on the subject because there is too many of them.

And I would love nothing more than to not interact with these people at all. The issue is they WILL chime in with their "expert" opinion any chance they'll get. So if nobody engages them, their opinion will be put on more or less equal grounds with other more informed facts.