Treatment for gender dysphoria aims to help people live the way they want to, in their preferred gender identity or as non-binary.
Some young trans, intersex, and gender non-binary people may decide to take puberty blockers after talking about it with their parents or guardian and a nurse or doctor.
Agreed. Calling someone a transphobe is almost always counterproductive. Most people aren’t, and the ones who are don’t care and see it as a compliment.
Most people just have no experience with it. They want to know that the kids are ok, but politicians have spent hundreds of millions of dollars exploiting legitimate concerns to generate outrage.
It is regulated because there are medical safety guidelines, governments don’t want doctors being sued, and they don’t want to pay out for unnecessary care.
I just did a quick search and it looks like this is what the NHS was requiring before starting treatment:
https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/clinical-commissioning-policy-prescribing-of-gender-affirming-hormones.pdf