A trans rights group will lower their recommended age for when youth should have access to irreversible medical treatments for their gender dysphoria — including surgeries for 15-year-olds.
According to The Associated Press, The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) will formally provide these updates in a medical journal later this year.
These updates allegedly include lowering the age for puberty blockers from 16 to 14 years old and allowing surgeries (sex-change operations, breast removal, etc.) on teenagers who are 15 years old.
The guidelines come with advice for strong psychological evaluation, but critics claim that, in reality, patients can be approved for surgery within minutes.
“They tell me horror stories. They tell me, ‘Our child had 20 minutes with the doctor’” before being offered hormones,” says psychologist Erica Anderson. “The parents leave with their hair on fire.”
But others believe that lowering the age will reduce suicides — even though the evidence on this remains unclear.
In fact, studies exist that suggest the opposite is true: that suicide is more likely (post-operation) for trans people.
And so, the debate goes on.
In other trans news, last month, the Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh released a documentary titled What is a Woman, wherein he interviews various individuals and groups to try and find the answer.
In the documentary, Walsh interviews a Canadian father who details his run-in with the Canadian legal system for referring to his biological teenage daughter with female pronouns.
The father was jailed for using ‘she/her’ pronouns when referring to his daughter.
Moreover, as the consequences of trans-related surgeries and procedures become more prevalent, horror stories from de-transitioned individuals continue to mount.
For example, in a viral thread on Twitter last week, a reportedly de-transitioned individual documented the devastating process he went through.
Cases like this are becoming more common, as are women’s rights groups looking to provide a non-circular definition of “woman.”
