andrewtri800

This logic is overcome by a better definition of "woman". If you define being a woman by having children out of you vagina, then you're saying sterile women aren't women. We still treat sterile women as women, so we decide to not define "woman" that way.

So it's not set in stone yet, then? I'm reading that though the Gillick competence framework gives some prompts it doesn't provide specific questions, leaving things up to each case and professional when it comes to children under 16. It seems from your answer like you're not comfortable sharing your personal opinion in any detail here? I'm interested in reading it, but that's fair enough if you don't want to go into it.

What do you think of the age at which it would be ethical to let a transgender kid/teen decide over their own body and have HRT and surgery? Is there an age too young to let someone decide something so life changing, and if so, how do we ethically determine it? The ethics of denying treatment to someone sounds very hard.

I have heard that referring to any kind if gender affirmation surgery as "sex change" is considered offensive. I am puzzled by this, since gender and sex are not the same. Maybe "sex change" only makes sense for genitals, but do you know why it is in disuse as a term?