As to the real risks, time and again it has been shown that the comparative risks of a) receiving puberty blockers vs b) growing up a gender you do not feel you are, strongly points to puberty blockers being a significant net benefit. Those taking puberty blockers rarely regret it; whereas those growing up a gender they do not identify with mostly regret it are are significantly more prone to abuse, mental health issues and suicide.
The issue here is manipulation of children. If children were fed tons of harmful pain blockers, there would be a "panic", too.
It's because acetaminophen is extremely hepatotoxic at levels not very far above the recommended dosages.
> Hepatic injury and subsequent hepatic failure due to both intentional and non-intentional overdose of acetaminophen (APAP) has affected patients for decades, and [...] remains a global issue; in the United States, in particular, it accounts for more than 50% of overdose-related acute liver failure and approximately 20% of the liver transplant cases.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4913076/
I would assert that acetaminophen is far more likely to be dangerous to far more children than puberty blockers and yet I don't see any moral panic over children's Tylenol.
https://chiro.org/pediatrics/ABSTRACTS/Acetaminophen.shtml
Is that enough?
Maybe this story had some details. https://www.thefp.com/p/i-thought-i-was-saving-trans-kids
In the UK they had to close a gender clinic (Tavistock) when all the misconduct became public.
And Tavistock was not doing surgeries.
Many of those kids who are given hormones will end up getting surgery, as blocking hormones is also said to block the process of people settling in their "gender".
And of course a lot of the kids given hormones will end up getting surgery, because their dysphoria is highly unlikely to resolve itself with or without hormones and for those whose dysphoria does not resolve surgery will be the best option for many - hence the very low regret rates.
And hence the drive to get puberty blockers to delay the need to decide on either.
You're buying into a hysteria founded on ignoring the actual and immoral harm being inflicted on trans youth by those seeking to deny them care in order to try to pretend they mostly don't exist. It's at best deeply misguided, at worst deeply bigoted.
Since most people end up not actually being trans, more people are now hurt by pushing transitioning as the solution for everything.
And you absolutely can not deny that it is being pushed.
It is not being pushed.
I'm on my phone so I can't back that up, but we've already established in this thread that is sufficient grounds to be believed.
Not sure how you manage to live in so much denial, but if you can truly pull it off, congratulations! May it work out well for you!
Unclear how many of the kids who receive hormones end up getting surgery.
And yet you're arguing for denying them the option that'd reduce the demand for these surgeries.
And you don't know how many are pushed into surgeries later by the hormone blockers, which already have irreversible effects themselves.
And numbers also haven't tripled in a few years just because society is more accepting or whatever (while we supposedly have a moral panic against it, too).