Argentina's president bans gender-affirming care for people under age 18
Argentina's president bans gender-affirming care for people under age 18
Argentina's president bans gender-affirming care for people under age 18

Argentina's president bans gender-affirming care for people under age 18
Argentina's president bans gender-affirming care for people under age 18

Is this guy just a little ass fly hanging around Trump's crappy nappy or something?
Not an expert, but isn't the argentinian president an ultra-liberal? (liberal as the world-definition, not the US-definition)
Could this just be to appease Trump?
That seems extremely un libertarian of him. Wonder how his supporters will spin it as a positive for libertarians
Except that's not what's happening. They pause puberty with pills so the kid can grow up and make an informed decision after years of therapy. Meanwhile they don't have to worry about their body going the wrong way and contributing to serious mental health problems.
These laws are forcing kids to deal with serious mental illness, not saving them.
In addition to what other commenters have said, the extent of gender affirming care should solely be based on:
By the way, surgeries removing enlarged breast tissue for men with Gynecomastia is gender affirming care. In the article, it says that in the US 25% of patients were 19 or younger at the time of surgery. Should this too be banned for minors? If not, how exactly is it different from a trans teen desiring surgery?
"cut their dick off" yeah that's exactly what gender affirming care is. This isn't about surgery, it's about HRT and puberty blockers, and the regret rates for all of those things are super low. Besides, there is already an epidemic of trans suicides. Do I need to repeat that? People are killing themselves because of transphobia, and yes, detransitioners exist, but most people don't regret getting gender reaffirming care, and again, this is about HRT and puberty blockers, not just surgery.
“As someone with no horse in this race, this seems fair to me”
Nobody is doing that. "Gender-affirming care" also includes giving hormone blockers to a kid who started puberty way too early.
I'm sure this is an important step to get the inflation under control, it will really improve the people's life !
Great use of their time and power.
Gender affirming care for minors doesn't mean surgery. I'm not sure if you're under the impression that's what this is banning but if it is, it's wrong.
What this is banning, and what every similar ban is banning is things like puberty blockers which are reversible and are only effective before puberty (obviously). Preventing or delaying puberty is REALLY important because it makes fully transitioning infinitely easier later on as adults.
All bans like this are doing is making the lives of trans people much harder under the guise of "preventing unreversible operations" when that's not even what they're banning.
Sorry, Greg, you're gonna just have to have breasts until you offically turn 18, because people think the goverment need to control children thet hate with no understanding of any detail.
But seriously, I had a cousin who had breast removal surgery when he was like 10-12, because he was a boy and didn't want to grow breasts, and he had the surgery so early in the process he was never in a position to be made fun of or bullied over it.
I really hope this is just to appease Trump and get on his good side and he doesn't actually go and attack trans rights
Oh how cute! The fascist North and South America bros are having a genocide contest!