Honestly, it's stories like this that give trans people a bad name. His mother was irresponsible and his doctors diagnosed too quick. However, this doesn't mean that if a kid wants to explore their gender WITHOUT hormones/surgery that they shouldn't be allowed to.
for sure, if your kid wants to wear dresses and play with dolls and knows the social stigma associated with it, then by all means, let them, but if you allow your CHILD to take hormones or get transitional surgery, then you're kind of a shitty parent.
And this is why no one under the age of 18 should be allowed by law to have drugs prescribed nor have surgery to change their sex. Their brains are still developing and that is also why they are not supposed to be tried as an adult, because they can't, let me repeat can't, make rational objective decisions with regards to future outcomes.
Well, if they take hormone blockers to delay puberty they don't have to decide if they want to transition right away. if they wait until after 18 then it will make transitioning a lot harder. PS the brain still develops after age 18
While it's true that the brain is still developing and continues to develop through your early 20's it's generally agreed that 18 is a reasonable age to consider a person an adult. Hormone blockers can cause some severe repercussions later in life and shouldn't be taken unless you have a legitimate medical reason especially by adolescents. Being undecided is not a legitimate reason. The whole point is that adolescents don't know what they're doing or what they want. They have mercurial opinions based on hormonal fluxes which is not something you want to base the rest of your life on. There is no real reason transitioning after the age 18 is any harder than before. The only difference is now you have a more developed and hopefully rational opinion on who you are.
A heavily swayed opinion by the biased "Adult" responsible for his upbringing during a time when it's biologically impossible to make a "sane" opinion. It's just as much if not more his parents fault and now he has to live with it. I can't say he deserved it though.
Surely there's no way they could fix that
he made a decision
now he has to live with it