Well, if by blind luck they have supportive parents, sure. My parents intentionally kept me ignorant of the existence of HRT/puberty blockers until my late teens (I didn’t learn it from them, I mean)
Hateful families are the elephant in the room for queer youth. The defensive approach that dominates the discourse in the US (and so spreads to the rest of western countries) that is all but “let the parents and only the parents decide about their kids’ care” sacrifices those of us with hateful and unsupportive families. Trans youth will never thrive as long as minors keep being considered their parents’ property.
Well, if by blind luck they have supportive parents, sure. My parents intentionally kept me ignorant of the existence of HRT/puberty blockers until my late teens (I didn’t learn it from them, I mean)
Hateful families are the elephant in the room for queer youth. The defensive approach that dominates the discourse in the US (and so spreads to the rest of western countries) that is all but “let the parents and only the parents decide about their kids’ care” sacrifices those of us with hateful and unsupportive families. Trans youth will never thrive as long as minors keep being considered their parents’ property.