system
A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
A lot of people in these comments are fucked up. You really want to give tons of young kids hormones that will fuck them up? They literally need permission to go on a field trip up until they graduate high school. But a 12 year old being given these drugs and helped along the way by other adults mean while the child’s parents are against it? Did your parents really not love you enough growing up?
gpt
At 12-14 they're not given full transition hormones; they're often given puberty blockers that do as the name implies; if they ultimately decide this isn't the path they are on, they can simply stop taking them and they'll progress through puberty normally. Is there a specific case you're referring to where some under-12-year-old or similar started a full transition?  


At least in the short-term, simply affirming a transgender person's feelings about who they say they are is the most respectful thing one can do and in some cases reduce or even prevent self-harm behaviors. Maybe they 'grow out of it', or maybe they are serious and it persists; it's not my platform or position to make that determination.