(05-20-2022, 07:11 PM)Jags Wrote:

(05-12-2022, 08:21 PM)mikesez Wrote: No minor should ever receive a transgender surgery.

But forcing a kid to go through puberty when they don't want to, and their parents don't want them to, strikes me as cruel.

Perhaps my reading comprehension is lacking, but I think you said it is “cruel, to force a child into puberty”.   Did I read that right?

I said it "strikes me" as cruel.  It gives me sympathetic feelings as if someone is being punished, if they want to take a medicine and some powerful person won't let them take that medicine.
Obviously, puberty is natural, and the simplest ethical argument is usually to let nature take its course, but, science is always developing new ways to control nature that our sense of ethics struggles to understand.

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