• Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    If my this you mean gender affirming surgical procedures for trans kids, no that’s not a thing at all.

    However, in rare situations in which an infant has ambiguous genitalia, usually the doctor assigns the infant a gender, sometimes conferring with the parents, and then performs surgery to make them less ambiguous. And yes, sometimes the infant will later, as a child or adult, decide their doctor-assigned gender misrepresents how they feel about themselves. This kind of gender assignment surgery is routine in the United States, and is performed without any question as to its veracity.

    A trans person has to be an adult and has to go through RLT (real life training – it may have a different name now) which is years of dressing, behaving and identifying as their transitional gender before doctors will perform reassignment surgery. I believe in the last decade this period of time has been shortened due to studies, but it is difficult to get reassignment surgery as a young adult and impossible as a child except hypothetically through less than legal means.