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That particular argument was first published in 2022 in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal - "Adolescent Medical Transition is Ethical: An Analogy with Reproductive Health". It's been getting cited in a few places since.How does that make sense as a comparison? No woman gets an abortion because she isn't distressed. How does "doesn't want to be pregnant" mean nothing to these people?
Author is a Canadian troon and lawyer. Basically they're saying a woman (actually in this case, girl) saying "I don't want to be pregnant" is not assessed to see if she's distressed enough to have an abortion or how measurably her wellbeing improves post procedure, or if she will regret the abortion. Instead it's acknowledged that she wants to change her physiological state to "not pregnant" and that's enough - her body, her choice.In this article, I argue that adolescent medical transition is ethical by analogizing it to abortion and birth control. The interventions are similar
insofar as they intervene on healthy physiological states by reason of the person’s fundamental self-conception and desired life, and their effectiveness is defined by their ability to achieve patients’ embodiment goals.
Again, that's not how abortion actually goes in many places (the UK requires two doctors to sign off that she is distressed) and more fundamentally is very obviously NOT THE SAME THING, but the idea of "right to self autonomy even if it doesn't help you and you regret it" over "a treatment for an illness" as the model for trans healthcare has been getting pushed more since.