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... medical intervention for trans teens is mostly puberty blockers.
Not really sure that will have much effect come adulthood.
That's the stupidest thing about the issue: a whole bunch of ignorant idiots think they're protecting the children by opposing medical intervention, but they're really doing the opposite by forcing them to develop characteristics of the gender they don't want instead of putting off the development until they're older.
The conservative (in the dictionary definition sense, not the political sense) course of action is supplying treatment, not withholding it!
From my understanding, there are small risks to blockers. But the number that really matters is how many young people later decide they do not want to transition. That number is very, very small.
So we are weighing a known reality, which is that going through their biological puberty while experiencing gender dysphoria can be devastating, against the uncertainty of long term effects after stopping blockers in a small group who later decide not to transition.
It seems insane to put people through hell because a small percentage might determine, before ever starting hormones, that they do not actually want to transition.
It's such an evil philosophy and most who believe it don't even bother to think about how evil it is. People who obsess over the tiny regret rate fundamentally do not view all human beings to have equal value. They implicitly believe it is better for 100 trans people to suffer than for one cis person to mistakenly transition. They fundamentally do not believe that the life of a trans person is worth anywhere near that of the life of a cis person.