I mean it's basically obvious she's doing it in response to legislation there. Though of course if you're going to decry their legislation you're going to have to defend why it's a good idea to allow literal children to make permanent life altering decisions regarding hormone intake, sterilization, and invasive cosmetic surgeries.

Rather than simply making them wait a few years before they are able to make those decisions.

I don't consider it to be a good idea all around to let kids make permanent decisions concerning their future especially when it concerns their reproductive potential. I'd even argue that people in their 20's are too young.

Putting the trans issue aside for a second and just focusing on the sterilization part of it. I've had plenty of conversations with young women that say "I never want to have kids" and they hate the argument of "well you might think that now but in ten or twenty years it's likely you'll change your mind. Which I get, you might not, but older people aren't talking out their ass, it's pretty normal to be a different person concerning this ten or twenty years on.

I think the generally logical approach to this is to think, right, I don't want kids now, future me might want kids, therefore, I shouldn't do anything that I can't reverse in the future if and when I change my mind.

I get that we need to allow adults a certain amount of leeway here to make their own decisions, the issues though come down to crazy people who will basically hurt themselves due to their own mental illness, and the problematic nature of amoral capitalism driven by short term profit over all else that would gladly provide surgeries with long term regret with no care beyond their own profits.

I really need to study more about the imperial Chinese eunuchs I think. There seem to be a myriad of parallels there with the current situation. You'd have men lining up to get their organs chopped off in order to pursue what was considered a lucrative career in the imperial city.

I wonder if the equivalent of the women chopping their breasts off and trying to present as men? Lack of testosterone in the ancient world would have made that difficult. Too say nothing of women's rights (or the lack thereof) preventing them from having free agency in such matters.

Regardless the older I get the more I feel like there really is nothing new under the sun. There's echoes of history in whatever new phenomenon come around and it seems like the naysayers are often correct to the disappointment of the progressive types that see a need to push forward yet are consistently frustrated by an inability to avoid the problems that have been pointed out to them before hand.