Attitudes towards transgenderism is much deeper than minors and mental disorders. Gen Z has seen a significant boost of women in particular who have been convinced that they are not their own gender and that they can express themselves by taking hormones and undergoing surgeries.
This isn’t just psychological, this is social, and I see too many young women who have easy access to these treatments which are irreversible.
This entire notion of hormonal and surgical care on gender dysphoria needs to be challenged in its entirety. This is not a cure, but the effects of it are permanent. It isn’t just a mental illness, it’s a self fulfilling prophecy as victims of this industry further isolate themselves socially from the people who would challenge them the further they commit to the treatment.
I have not seen an honest case of transgenderism producing a “healthy” individual. I must reemphasize, this is not a cure. It does nothing to alleviate the very mental disorder it claims to treat.
Such treatments should be investigated officially and restricted judiciously. They should not be easily accessible, and especially should not be accessible to anyone without an actually diagnosis of gender dysphoria (or actual medical cases where hormones and surgeries are legitimate treatments, like menopause complications and cancer).
Personally I believe that we will look back on transgender care in the same way we look back on lobotomies. It is a horribly unethical practice which is too easily accessible and overly politicized by predatory interests.
The longer we ignore this reality and beat around the bush of gender classifications and what age is “appropriate” for these procedures to be legal, more young men and women are being convinced to make an irreversible decision.