How about puberty blockers?
Should people who are still legally defined as children be allowed to make a decision on those?
Should people who are still legally defined as children be allowed to make a decision on those?
an under-18 can not unilaterally decide to go on puberty blockers either.
> The California Department of Health Care Services, a branch of Newsom’s administration, said Friday that state dollars will be used to reimburse providers of gender-affirming care for youth covered by Medi-Cal, the state version of Medicaid...
Gender-affirming care includes medical treatments that help align a person’s physical characteristics with their gender identity. Care typically begins with therapy and may progress to puberty-blocking medicine and hormone treatments, and in rare cases for adolescents, surgeries.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/09/29/california-to-fund-...
my comment was about you incorrectly saying minors can "decide that they want to have sex change surgery" (later changed to puberty blockers), which they cannot just decide to do.
If a minor can get a sex change with parental consent they should also be allowed to marry with parental consent.