Is Transgender Care for Minors Life-Saving or Child Abuse?

You call it life-saving; I call it a medical scandal. There is no robust, long-term evidence that puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones improve mental health outcomes for minors—the studies are short-term, methodologically flawed, and often funded by activists. Meanwhile, the harms are undeniable: bone density loss, impaired brain development, and sterility. You're experimenting on children with irreversible treatments based on ideology, not medicine. That is the very definition of child abuse. You claim blockers are 'reversible,' but that's a lie. A child who takes puberty blockers for three years will never develop the natural bone density or reproductive capacity they would have had. And when they transition to hormones, they're signing up for a lifetime of medical dependency, increased risk of heart disease, cancer, and a shortened lifespan. You call that 'affirmation'? I call it a life sentence of suffering. Real child protection means shielding kids from permanent medical decisions they cannot comprehend—not enabling them. Your 'regret rate' is a fantasy. The studies that cite 1% regret exclude the vast majority of youth who detransition later, many of whom are too ashamed or pressured to report it. And you ignore the growing wave of detransitioners—young women who were rushed into transition, only to realize they were just same-sex attracted or gender non-conforming. They've lost their breasts, their fertility, their voices. They are suing the medical establishment for malpractice. Where is your compassion for them? And your 'suicide' scare tactic is the cruelest lie of all. The studies linking gender-affirming care to reduced suicide are correlational, not causal—and they ignore that the highest rates of suicidality are in children with co-occurring mental health issues like depression or autism, who are being steered into transition instead of getting proper psychiatric care. You're exploiting vulnerable kids to push a political agenda. Real help would be therapy that explores the root causes of their distress, not a prescription pad. So don't lecture me about saving lives. You're mutilating children and calling it compassion. That's not healthcare. That's abuse.