psst. hey
people who are legal adults who want their tubes tied or top surgery etc etc should be able to do so full stop.
“oh but what if they regret it for the rest of their lives”
okay. so what.
Adults make decisions about our lives, that’s what being an adult is. We may decide to get a face tattoo, or quit a promising job, or join the army, or move to another country.
That’s practically all we do as adults. We make decisions that effect the rest of our life, and then we live, or sometimes die, accordingly. Maybe i’ll spend the rest of my life regretting telling my influential boss he doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground, but, as an adult, that’s the kind of life decision i am allowed to make for myself. And after all, it might be the best thing i ever did. It’s my life, and i get to do all the fucking around and all the finding out i want to.
surgical transition, or sterilization, or whatever… is exactly the same. If you aren’t going to let a legally adult person decide for themself about that stuff, then you can’t let them get a tattoo or move to Florida either
The right to be wrong is one of the most fundamental rights there is. If people try to take away your liberty whenever they think you’ll regret your decisions, your liberty doesn’t mean much.
The response “this is because doctors are afraid of being sued if they do a procedure you later regret” is correct
The response “it is fucked up that doctors are afraid of being sued for giving you treatment you actively ask for and then regret, but not for denying you treatment” is also correct
The response “many things are wrong with how litigation works in this country and many others” is also correct
The responses “it would be a better world if doctors cared more about patient well-being than about their own income” and “our society is built around money and nobody will do a job that costs them more money than it earns” are both accurate
And so is the response “a lot of doctors ARE just straight-up jerks”
many valid complaints here.