There's a boy in Australia who felt from a young age that he was really a girl.
His mother noted this but decided to just let him get a bit older and see if it didn't just work out.
But as he got older he got more insistent, saying things like he wanted to go to a doctor to be turned into a girl.
His mom still held back, but eventually her son got so disturbed about not feeling right around boys that she decided to take positive action and give her son her own estrogen pills.
It's notable that she couldn't just get hormones directly for her son; the things are actually more tightly controlled than many, especially on the right, think.
No one is just getting them for the asking.
This whole situation has turned into another culture war battle with people, mostly but not always on the left, saying that you have to honor and facilitate a child's wishes, while people in the right are strict and say you must simply hold the line and wait for the kids to "grow out of it".
Some people say it's ok to give puberty blocking hormones, because the effect will wear off if they're stopped, but this isn't necessarily true.
At the same time the idea of just "controlling" people because they're underage, a common overall philosophy of the right which is employed in their "abstinence only" sex policy for kids, denying them true sex education, is often not a very effective idea either.
When kids get to a certain age they start to feel their own agency, and realize that they can do certain things regardless of the rules imposed on them by parents and society.
Kids mostly discover that they actually can have sex regardless of what their parents say, and often do.
Also, if they're denied gender affirming care, they know they can run away, or kill themselves, which they often do.
So, is the left wrong about ever allowing puberty blockers, is the right wrong about categorically refusing gender affirming care to minors, both, or neither?
The Australian boy who was transitioning to be a girl decided to detransition back into a boy but there was one problem: he now has fleshy breasts which weren't compatible with being a boy, so he wanted to get rid of them.
Giving puberty blockers turns out to NOT be necessarily reversible as the left often says.
His mother agreed to get him surgery to reduce his breast tissue, but she had to take him to South Korea to get this done.
Despite what Jordan Peterson screams about immoral, criminal "butchers" chopping up children, gender-confirming surgery is ILLEGAL for minors in most countries.
There are NO doctors that will do this surgery on minors in America, Canada, Mexico, the UK, Europe, or Australia, and probably not Japan, which is to say, anywhere Americans can get to.
The right is hysterical and uninformed about facts on this issue.
But at the same time, the left is potentially wrong about puberty blockers being innocuous. They can cause significant permanent changes to the body that cannot be reversed without surgery, and some not even then, like bone growth.
There is a larger issue to consider here though, and that is the fundamental question of choice.
Is it ultimately too much of a burden, especially on children, to even allow them to consider gender a choice as far as it leads to permanent physical changes?
Sometimes in life it's better to accept things even if they're not exactly as you would like them, rather than taking in the responsibility of deciding, and then having to deal with the consequences of that choice for the rest of your life.
I made the choice to move to NM many years ago, so now if there's something i don't like about it, it feels like my fault.
If i had just stayed were i was i could just blame everything on the place itself.
I could say, "even though i may not like it, this is just the way things are."
If you're born a boy and it doesn't feel perfect, you can always say, "it's not my fault, this is what what given me."
But if you transition and there are problems, they are YOUR FAULT.
As Devo put it so long ago, "freedom of choice, is what you got; freedom from choice, is what you want."
The trans kid question is much difficult than we think.
But we do know certain things, like the conservative concept of just forcing things on people, even if they're kids, while it's arguably moral in some cases, is ultimately just not reasonable, because children are people and will pursue their own desires on their own no matter how much "power and authority" their parents think they have.
And Jordan Peterson as usual is just a complete idiot.