Yes, it does.
Your sources show the majority is against such operations, as am I. However we are discussing if giving such medicine to a consenting teen after a certified psychologist suggested so is child abuse that is so bad that requires the child to be removed from the parents.
We are not talking about whether the majority agrees that such drugs are safe for teens or should be given to teens. This is a different issue.
Yes, I agree that such drugs are dangerous and the approach to gender dysphoria should be different than feeding drugs to confused kids that didn't get the body they wanted from nature.
No, I disagree that the parents that do allow their kids to take such drugs are committing child abuse and should lose their kids. I consider those parents idiots and I think they are harming their kid. But I don't think it is child abuse.
I can disagree strongly with the way some parents raise their kids but not considering what they do as "child abuse".
All in all that the majority disagrees strongly with the parenting decisions of some parents does not justify the huge government overreach of taking teens out of their families unless there is real abuse.
Here is an example of what Netherlands considers as child abuse:
And keep in mind this is from a warped, insane government that considers spanking as a form of child abuse.
There are five general types of child abuse:
- Physical abuse: all forms of physical violence;
- Emotional or psychological abuse: an adult regularly berates the child, acts in a dismissive and hostile manner towards the child or intentionally scares the child.
- Physical neglect: the child does not receive the care and nurturing that it needs.
- Emotional or psychological neglect: continuous lack of positive attention for the child. Ignoring the child’s need for love, warmth and security. This category also covers cases in which children are witnesses to violence between their parents or caregivers.
- Sexual abuse: sexual contact which an adult forces upon a child.
And now, for Florida, reasons for divorced parents to lose custody:
"Some factors that could result in a finding that a parent is unfit to care for their child are: Failing to maintain proper medical care for the child. Failing to keep the child enrolled in school. Evidence that the parent physically or emotionally abused the child."
If the parent took the teen to a psychologist, then evidently, there's no child abuse or neglect according to that definition (Florida's).