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There is a reason the voting age is 18, the drinking age is 21, the tattooing age is 18, and so on.
Puberty blockers have lasting deleterious physical effects that go well beyond what a minor suffering from gender dysphoria is likely thinking of.
I'm in full favor of banning all medical gender affirming care interventions for minors.
Gorsuch and ACB seem to be the lynchpins for how this case will be decided and I honestly can't read how they'll come down on this issue. Regardless, there will be vocal disagreements from the public regardless of how the vote ends up.
I think the patient, their doctors, and their parents should be the final arbiters of medical treatments. We would absolutely not be asking judges to weigh in on cancer treatments or other treatments with similar potential for future harm. The cultural aspects of these cases cannot be ignored, and should not be allowed to override the need to allow patients, their docs, and their families to have the last word on medical treatment.