Texas is right sex reassignment surgery on minors is child abuse | Washington Examiner
As Masters explained, This surgical procedure physically alters a child s genitalia for non-medical purposes, potentially inflicting irreversible harm to children s bodies.
The finding allowed for relevant exceptions for children already affected by certain physical traumas, or who have genetic disorders affecting ordinary sex development, or who have unusual chromosomal features. In sum, Texas sticks to the science, recognizing that sometimes rare anomalies exist but not allowing them to become a justification for unconscionable procedures on children who don’t need them.
The key recognition is that adolescents outlooks, moods, and cognitive development are extremely malleable, whereas completed sex reassignment procedures tend to be either irreversible or extremely difficult to undo. It takes no deep scientific inquiry, but merely quotidian observation, to know that children and teenagers go through phases and that they are prone to trying out new experiences and ideas that don t last.
Science, of course, confirms this. As one peer-reviewed study put it, in agreement with virtually every study on the topic, a fundamental reorganization of the brain takes place in adolescence … Subcortical brain areas, especially the limbic system and the reward system, develop earlier, so that there is an imbalance during adolescence between the more mature subcortical areas and less mature prefrontal areas. This may account for typical adolescent behavior patterns, including risk-taking involving sometimes putting their health at serious risk .