Gender Dysphoria
Gender dysphoria is becoming more and more common and yet treatments remain vastly unexamined. As something that has been shown to effect homosexuals, concern needs to be shown for the medicalization of children, including gay youth. The Society for Evidence Based Gender Medicine says it best:
"...recognizes the right of mature adults to undergo gender-affirming interventions despite the low quality of evidence on which the interventions are based. However SEGM is very concerned about applying experimental procedures to vulnerable youth whose pre-frontal cerebral cortices are still developing, whose identities are evolving, and whose ability to meaningfully consent to interventions with unknown long-term outcomes is highly uncertain."
"...recognizes the right of mature adults to undergo gender-affirming interventions despite the low quality of evidence on which the interventions are based. However SEGM is very concerned about applying experimental procedures to vulnerable youth whose pre-frontal cerebral cortices are still developing, whose identities are evolving, and whose ability to meaningfully consent to interventions with unknown long-term outcomes is highly uncertain."