People under 25 **should** be allowed to transition
OPINION Submitted Oct. 15, 2021, 3:39 a.m. by Adventurous-Gold422It's true that the brain develops until 25, but people who use the fact to gatekeep young people often omit overwhelming evidence that gender identity forms at age of 3. 18 year old people can open their credit card, buy a house or go to military so why they shouldn't be allowed to get on hormones and get a surgery? You're also doing serious life decisions under 25, so it absolutely can't be too young.
If it was really true to wait until 25, the professional guidelines would recommend otherwise. There is a reason why the age of consent for cross-sex hormones is 16 and for surgeries 18 - people at this age are deemed mature enough to make such medical decisions, unless there is evidence against their capability to consent. If you want to up the age, then you have to provide reliable evidence.
Now if the person is under 16, if they are genuinely very mature and capable of consent (in a conservative sense), then they should be allowed to get on hormones.
Regret due to transitioning is already very rare - it happens less than 1% of cases. In contrast, suicide rate for people who don't transition is around 41%.
This is a detrans subbredit and there are many ppl here who've lost a lot due to transitioning at young ages so perhaps its not the place to post this. And while I personally agree with it, others here are sensitive about it. r/detrans is only for detransitioners and desisters and their needs so plz respect that.
Idk about that, I socially transitioned at 13 and medically at 15 and can say I'm at least 90%sure I would've forgone medical treatment if I was required to wait until at least 18 to make that decision
I mean... who exactly is stopping legally adult people from transitioning on an institutional level? Adults under 25 are absolutely able to transition, and will never be prevented from being so at any point, so what's the point of this post?
Edit. And you have some bloody nerve to come to a detrans sub with people regretting their transition and say to their faces that what they feel is 'already very rare', so it essentially doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
If this sub is full of it, show me these posts where someone demands that transition should be legal for 25+ people. Not 'man, I wish I had waited longer, my brain wasn't fully formed', show me exactly what you are claiming people here write all the time - that transition should only be legal if you're 25.
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