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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : When the organization adopted in 2022 its current Standards of Care -- relied on by the National Institutes of Health, the World Health Organization and every major American medical and psychiatric association -- it scrapped a draft chapter about ethics and removed minimum-age requirements for children starting puberty blockers or undergoing sexual-modification surgeries.
51% : "How do we come up with appropriate standards for non-binary patients?" asked Thomas Satterwhite, a San Francisco-based plastic surgeon who has operated on dozens of patients younger than 18 since 2014.
47% : I think now that I follow a lot of kids into their mid-twenties, I'm always like, 'Oh, the dog isn't doing it for you, right?'"There is extensive research showing adolescent brains are wired to have little control over rash behavior and are not capable of grasping the magnitude of decisions with lifelong consequences.

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