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

Oh how cute! The fascist North and South America bros are having a genocide contest!

Is this guy just a little ass fly hanging around Trump's crappy nappy or something?

A point some people seem to miss is that this administration is attacking from the bottom. They make it seem like little kids are getting surgeries as soon as they declare they're the opposite gender so no one "reasonable" could be against this ban.

Once this passes and no one objects, and nothing really changes because kids weren't getting surgeries in the first place, they wait a while. Then they'll find some other "issue" and move on to adult trans people.

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?
- He ran a campaign claiming to be ancap libertarian and liberal (as you say, the world definition). However, if one listened closely to what he said and paid attention to what he did, as well as look at the local people he rubbed elbows with, one would understand immediately that he's just a right-wing authoritarian populist.
  He has met up with the same people behind Trump from the start, and as soon as he took over last year he pulled the same crap Trump is pulling in the US. He only became bolder now that Trump's term began. That's not appeasement, it's knowing he has Trump backing him in case people here become too fed up with him. Though I have to wonder if Trump would even care.
  Edit: Some people here are trying to paint trumpism = peronism as to distance Milei from Trump, but it's bullcrap.
  Edit 2: Aaaaand now they're coming for adult trans people. Told ya!

That seems extremely un libertarian of him. Wonder how his supporters will spin it as a positive for libertarians

No it isn't. Children are not considered mature enough to make legal decisions on their own, so the whole libertarian issue doesn't apply to them.
- So he's also going to raise the age of consent from 14 to 18?
  https://www.unicef.org/lac/media/2806/file
- Right, so it falls to the parents' discretion, not the government's, in such a worldview.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillick_competence

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.
Why do the most clueless dickheads (this means you) always feel the need to stick their uninformed opinions into discussions that don't pertain to them anyway???
- I wasn’t aware you were the leading expert on the subject. Because your opinion is so much more informed than mine.
In addition to what other commenters have said, the extent of gender affirming care should solely be based on:
the decision of a medical ethics body and
peer-reviewed and repeated studies
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.
gender reassignment surgery is not done on minors with the exception of intersex babies(which itself is questionable ethics). Minors can and often do get a tattoos with parental approval.
They can also get psychological counciling and be referred to as a preferred name. These count as gender affirming care.
How is this affecting you? Why do you care what someone else does to their body?
Nobody is doing that. "Gender-affirming care" also includes giving hormone blockers to a kid who started puberty way too early.
“As someone with no horse in this race, this seems fair to me”

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.
- 1 anecdotal story does not mean we should allow something carte Blanche. For every story of someone that needs it there’s another where they regret it.
  Yes some people need it but it can always be done later. We need to prevent the abuse of these types of surgeries first and foremost.

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