[dinkly]

Are you aware that shortly after the initial publication of SOC8, WPATH issued a set of changes which removed all lower age limits that were previously recommended, including for irreversible surgeries?

See https://web.archive.org/web/20220919141138/https://www.tandf... for the detail of their correction notice.

[froh]

glad you're bringing this up

the wpath soc is a very accessible document with a very nuanced and careful approach to treatment of adolescents and children, it explicitly deals with the potential fragility of such decisions - and the cases which are very stable early on and benefit from early access, and how to discern them.

they didn't take out the brains or caution. they just took out the inflexible and useless rigid age barriers.

its really worth a read, chapter 6 is the one relevant here

https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc

[dinkly]

They took out the age limits because they wanted to reduce the risk of those who follow their guidelines being taken to court for malpractice. This is about protecting their own practitioners, not about providing the best care to patients.

See this video of the conference where this was revealed: https://twitter.com/SwipeWright/status/1571999221401948161

These people are harming young children who can't meaningfully consent to such irreversible treatments. And then hiding behind these guidelines so they don't get sued. It's sickening.