As you can socially self ID (even though no laws have been passed) and get a GRC without surgically altering your body why do we not just say no surgery until 25+ minimum?
You can't treat legal adults differently on the basis of age (although it happens with pay - my dd is paid more as a 20yr old than as a 19yr old, so go figure.)
However, I strongly believe that waiting till the mid to late twenties to have invasive cosmetic surgery is sensible, given what we now know about the brain, and it's lack of maturations until much later than what we consider 'adult'.
My goal with my eldest with GD has never been to prevent her transitioning completely - it's been to get to her to cognitive adulthood with as many options as possible on the table. If, as an adult, she makes the choice to take opposite sex hormones or have cosmetic surgery, that's her business. All the 'trans her now/real self' cheerleaders are focused on is not her wellbeing, but her ability to pass in the future, which is nuts, because she's really short. As a 'man' she'll stand out a mile. Regardless of fuzz on the face.
My son is years and years away from cognitive maturity. There is no damn way I am going to be complicit in foreclosing on his identity now. And however rah-rah TRA's want to phrase it, that's what happens when you commit a child to a trans status through blockers, cross sex drugs, and surgery. You close off future options for them.
This is the kind of thing you'd here on 4th Wave, and other so-called 'anti-trans' groups that Littman drew from. In fact, she drew from groups of parents who were taking the long view of their child's wellbeing, many of whom are parents of gay and lesbian kids, and most of whom did not rule out transition for their child as mature adults, if their gender dysphoria was to persist and remain intractable.
Personally, I think there's a fucking IQ gap of a zillion between the parents who throw a 'yay, my baby is really a girl/boy! party' and those parents who say 'hang on, let's think about this for a minute, taking into account what we know (fluidity of identity at this developmental stage of psychological development, other models of social contagion) and what we don't (any evidence base that this cohort persists even with watchful waiting, and the side effects of treatment over the short, mid and long term do not outweigh any potential positives in reduction in dysphoria short, mid to long term).
Those posters who truly fear for the lives of the ROGD kids living with their awful parents, my suggestion to you is that you start promoting the need for high quality research on ROGD adolescents and their outcomes. And by high quality, I don't mean 'an article a psychologist wrote based on incomplete data from an entirely different cohort study'.
The MINUTE I have that data in my hand - the replicable data that says GD persists over the long-term to the same extent in ROGD kids as it does in those whose dysphoria has been present since childhood, that it is untreatable by newer forms of therapy like DBT, that persistence rates in those treated with blockers and hormones in their teens is similar to those not treated with blockers and hormones, that suicidal ideation post-transition remains consistently and significantly lower than before transition over the short, mid and long term, that health effects of surgery and hormones over the life time does not produce major or intractable effects on physical health - then I'll agree that this isn't experiemental treatment, and I'll consider it for my minor child.
So instead of insisting the evidence is already in, and the parents who wait and watch are nasty bigots, go out and fundraise and rally for the research - proper research. Stop shutting down academics whose politics or focus you don't like. That's what you can do for ROGD kids instead of calling their parents liars/they were always trans. What b/s.