Someone's ability to join the army and be used as cannon fodder is hardly proof of their ability to think intelligently for themselves.
In England if you're 16 or older you can consent to get any medical treatment. If you're 18 and older you can decline any medical treatment if you're competent to do so. If you're 16 or 17 you cannot decline life-saving medical treatment, the courts will decide.
If you're under 16 your healthcare team will test to see if you're Gillick Competent. If you are Gillick Competent you can consent to any medical treatment. Doctors will always try to get the parents involved, and will always try to get agreement of the parents, but sometimes that's not possible and in those cases they can use the child's consent.
However, for treatment with puberty blockers there was a different protocol: the child, and the parents, and two different healthcare teams had to all agree that PBs were the right thing and that the child had capacity to make this choice.
This court case is saying that this is not sufficient, and that even if the parents and children and treatment teams all agree the courts still need to rule.
This thread was even flagged, no doubt by members of this group who consider any attempt to have an open discussion on the issue as a threat to their agenda.
I'd guess it's only your love for your children that compelled you to express your views on this issue in the face of potential hostility.
I'll add that this trans-rights radicalism is borne out of a justified fear of discrimination against a group that faces tremendous hardship in society: people who self-identify as a gender they were not born as.
But I have no doubt that the damage done by trying to suppress open discussion, both directly by not allowing people to intelligently discuss critically important trans-related issues like children undergoing gender transition hormone therapy, and indirectly in degradating the customs and institutions that guarantee free speech, will vastly outweigh the good it does.
(I am trans, and also a parent.)
You seem to misunderstand this court case. It did not say that PBs can cause infertility. It said that people who take PBs often go on to take hormones, and the hormones cause infertility.
In the UK you cannot get hormones if you're under 18.
I know there are exceptions, but the default state should be to trust parents with their own children. Nobody is perfect and mistakes will be made. That’s life, we try to do our best. And no committee, politician, doctor, even therapist is going to be able to ensure they won’t make mistakes that are worse. And I love my kids much more than they ever could.