If a post adolescent Trans young person can give consent, has both support at home and from their medical team, then there should be a route to gender surgeries where that young person wants and understands the treatments involved. I'm very glad WPATH SoC8 gives space for this.
For those who criticise this opinion, I'd reply that other people's medical care is none of your business. That these are personal decisions which are carefully considered by the people best placed to make them. Body autonomy is a human right.
There is a lot of evidence that Trans people delay their education, relationships, jobs. Those who are able to receive the appropriate healthcare for them & at the appropriate time, are able to more quickly reach their transition goals & stop delaying important life milestones.
Transition healthcare can be hugely expensive, time-consuming & painful. If young people are able to avoid or mitigate these burdens through earlier interventions, then these should of course be supported where appropriate.
All Trans people, no matter their age should be able to access the healthcare they need without barriers or delay. Universal, accessible healthcare is a human right. Trans healthcare is healthcare & is life affirming & life saving. #TransHealthNow
The current spate of terrorist attacks together with online abuse & threats leading to those attacks, are a weapon of those who seek to remove body autonomy. Those who attack trans healthcare doctors are seeking control of other people's bodies. It is profoundly anti feminist.
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