If teenagers are not allowed to have a vasectomy they should not be allowed to go on hormone therapy before age 18
Doctors can be incredibly patronizing towards young men and women, even those already in their twenties, when they decide to have have a vasectomy or have their tubes tied at an early age. Especially when these people do not have a family already. /r/Childfree is full of people who have a hard time getting sterilized despite being very clear about these desires.
However a sixteen year old can go on hormone treatment which also causes sterility and it's legally allowed and considered medically and ethnically correct. How is this not a double standard? One might argue that children cannot oversee the effects of their choices at a young age.
How many people haven't been young and wanted vastly different things in life from what they wanted later on? It's incredibly irresponsible to allow children to make irreversible choices for their future at an age where very few children are aware of the effects. For certain life changing decisions you should be at least 18.
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