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Just in case you or someone else is genuinely not aware: Transgender care for anyone before puberty is entirely social - let them wear their preferred clothing and use their preferred name and pronouns. This is not permanent. Transgender care for those who have reached puberty but are still minors involves the same social things, plus puberty blockers - puberty blockers delay puberty while you take them. If someone took them for 6 months, then stopped, their puberty would start back up as normal. This gives kids more time to grow up without having permanent changes that they would have to work hard to reverse, like a trans man having to deal with getting rid of breasts later in life. This is exactly the opposite of letting minors make permanent changes to their biochemistry. Given the suicide rates, this is also the opposite of "hurting themselves". The treatments you seem worried about are not available to minors. The medical standards of care for those age ranges straight-up do not include them, and it would be really weird (and likely considered unethical) if a doctor ignored the standards of care and did them anyways. The care standards give younger people time to see what it feels like to live as another gender, while leaving every option open for them later as they grow up.
Actual transgender care for youths also reduces suicide risks substantially, which is a lot more permanent than temporarily delaying puberty for a while and wearing a dress. Though, given how extremely low detransitioning rates are, it is likely to end up being permanent, the options available to young people aren't difficult to reverse.
All this is why you got the downvotes - you are arguing against something that does not happen, using dramatic language, in favor of something that leads to a lot of self-harm in children (literally over 90% of trans youths have attempted self-harm at least once, per a 2017 University of Cambridge study).
You have been lied to.
No I haven't. Sorry but kids don't get to do whatever they want precisely because they might kill themselves or engage in self harm. That's a symptom of something else. I suspect it's lack if a structured home life, unmonitored internet access, pornography and the hypersexualized culture at large among other things.
Minors (especially teenagers) will do anything for attention and being 'trans' is often a means to that end. Even worse it's often presented as a solution for problems it can't solve. Parents can fall into this trap too.
Yeah there's nothing permanent about stunting a childs adolescence while everyone around them naturally grows into their bodies and actually learns what it's like to be a man and a woman instead of weirdly speculating on the sidelines. We're robbing kids of normal childhoods by not just allowing but often encouraging them to obsess over this stuff.
Kids should have hobbies, read books, be responsible for chores at home and be raised by parents not the state. Adults can do what they want but they need to leave kids out of it.
Self-harm and suicide statistics are cited repeatedly as perhaps THE primary argument for the child trans stuff as if it is that cut and dry. It's not. I can guarantee these situations are way more complex than anyone wants to admit. Something like 1 out of every 2 or 3 adults are on antidepressants in the west. It's not because they are transgender it's because we have a nihilistic culture that offers no meaning to life outside of consumption and worship of self.