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Something that's always worth mentioning, and I'm sure this has been said here a thousand times, is that kids are incapable of being "given all the facts", so to speak. The reason that children aren't allowed to sign contracts until the age of majority isn't that their brains haven't finished developing (which they haven't until about 26) , it's because they don't know enough about the world to be capable of making informed decisions. Even if they know all of the facts directly relating to a certain matter, they don't know enough about the world to contextualize the information or to fully appreciate the consequences of their decisions.View attachment 3728653
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I would say "fuck around and find out" but these kids are not being given all the facts. Being surprised by nasty side effects is not uniquely trans, doctors don't have the time to go over all the side effects with you during your appointment and pharmacists just wave you on unless you specifically ask questions. I can only think of a handful of times when someone told me what to expect from a drug I was prescribed.
It feels even worse when it comes to things like this though. Maybe because it's kids.
This is one of the many reasons that attempts to prevent parents from making or being involved in medical decisions on behalf of their children is so insidious and repugnant. Sorry for the tardiness (hehe) of this reply. Even the proposition that children are capable of informed consent gets my blood up.