Yeah, this is generally why hormone therapy before puberty is finished is frowned upon. Your body is already a hormonal wreck from puberty, then you do this exogenous hormone whiplash after changing your mind...

There are other ways of providing gender affirming care

Yeah, most countries have actual sane health protocols around gender affirming care.

Allowing an actual child, with an undeveloped brain, to choose hormone altering therapy is just insane to me.

I mean, they weren't because you yourself stated you got dysphoria again as a transitioned male.

Transitioning back indicates you underwent the wrong treatment and had to backtrack it.

I get that you might feel defensive because your situation is the actual edge case that shithead conservatives look for to attack hormone therapy, but sometimes being honest is better than forcing "right think"

I mean, putting everyone in straightjackets would also do the same thing. Doesnt mean its a good idea.

I was very happy with the effects until then,

So you got treatment for dysphoria as a pubescent teen. Then you got dysphoria as a result of the treatment and detransitioned.

That sounds like a perfect use case for why you should wait.

Like I said, it doesn't sound like you had very good doctors as there are a LOT of gender affirming protocols that don't involve fucking with the hormones of teens going through puberty.

The lack of self awareness, the flippant use of hormones without consideration of long term health implications and the lack of actual care for science here is incredibly undermining to your political position on this topic.

Your own quote undermines the level of certainty you seem to have here...

however, the literature to date suffers from a lack of methodological rigor that increases the risk of type I error

In statistical hypothesis testing, a type I error, or a false positive, is the rejection of the null hypothesis when it is actually true. Here, the null hypothesis is that gender affirming care does not impact suicide rates at statistically significant levels.

Further, your link around youth outcomes lumps hormone treatment together with a panacea of other gender affirming treatment options, including hormone blockers. Whereas we are specifically talking about exogenous hormone treatments on pubescent children...which has zero longitudinal studies because it's something that has only recently been started as a legal protocol.

yeah, except this kind of hormone therapy on pubescent kids has not had any kind of longitudinal study. So you are positing an untestable hypothesis - ie if they didn't have hormone therapy, they'd likely kill themselves. Whereas, we do know of many additional modes of gender affirming care that doesn't involve transitioning people whose bodies are still developing.

There is a meaningful difference between the brain of a 25 year old post-pubescent human and an 11 year old pre-pubescent human. To such a degree that your argument here is just Redditor being Redditor.

Glad that as a trans person, you agree about the hormones though. It's a stupid thing to do for someone who hasn't finished puberty, and nobody pushing for it is actually taking a science or evidence based position on it.

And my advice would be to wait until you've finished puberty before taking any hormones at all.

I give this same advice to teenage gymbros who want to hop of gear for the exact same reasons.