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No, they're protecting their members from being sued, as that video revealed.

The "trans child" is a medically and politically constructed entity, that has arisen from the rhetoric of activists. Children cannot meaningfully consent to these "gender affirming" medical interventions that will scar them for life, make them infertile and lose sexual function, and have an impact far beyond anything they can comprehend.

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.

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.

It is not a lie. It is an observation of the specific topics being criticized by conservatives, and also by radical feminists.

It is not a lie, this is not bullshit.

Please see my other comment with links to evidence of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35348789

Now that I have provided evidence, do you concede that you were incorrect, and that it is a true statement of fact that girls as young as 12 years old are having their breasts sliced off because they say they want to be boys?

Sadly, this is not false.

Here's a paper on "gender-affirming" mastectomies from researchers in the US. The cohort studied includes girls as young as 12 years old at the time of surgery: https://journals.lww.com/annalsplasticsurgery/Abstract/2022/...

Also here's a piece from Reuters about rates of "gender-affirming treatment" in children, taken from health insurance data - the section for "top surgery" includes girls as young as 13: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-tran...

Girls as young as 12 years old are having their breasts chopped off because they say they want to be boys. Do you think a child of that age can meaningfully consent?

The mistakes the trans activists made were going after the kids, and demanding access to each and every female-only space for males. If they'd done neither of those things, the conservatives would have nothing to say at all.