‘Gender-Affirming’ Surgeries for Children?

I was quite surprised to learn that there are doctors performing ‘gender-affirming’ double mastectomies on children as young as 12…. Considering the fact that there is currently a Reddit group with more than 22,000 detransitioners, and others cropping up all the time, maybe we should start questioning what is truly meant by ‘gender-affirming care.’ Such procedures as double-mastectomies are irreversible, and at the very least render the child incapable of ever being a mother who breastfeeds…

I do not believe someone that young can give informed consent on something so dramatic. It is too easy to get the confusion and disorientation of adolescence confused with gender dysphoria, and given that gender dysphoria is a feeling of being unhappy with your current body, what evidence do we have that removing parts will increase sense of well-being? Also, if gender is a social construct, then why would the treatment not be psychological? Esp since sudden onset dysphoria and gender fluidity is all part of the puzzle, and not to be predicted, so to go to great lengths to capture the ‘boy’ body or ‘girl’ body to ‘align with one’s gender’ is intellectually incoherent. The child could without prediction change their mind to identify with some other body form anytime after the surgery… Which is, I guess why we’re seeing an ever increasing number of detransitioner groups. I believe the detransitioners ought to be treated as canaries in the coal mine. Let us discover what went wrong for them so as not to repeat any more surgeries that will leave children feeling the devastating regret of so many of these young detransitioners.

It made sense to me when trans adults would say they felt like they were meant to be the opposite sex. I could understand that reasoning… But when more and more genders are being created, or realized, that are supposedly not aligned with sex at all, then how could a sex-change surgery ever alleviate the gender dysphoria? It doesn’t make sense to be saying gender and sex are unrelated, yet ‘gender-affirming’ surgeries are being performed to align the patient with their gender, which is not related to the shape or characteristics of the body? Anyway, I don’t think I’m the only one confused as to what the doctors are purporting to do in these these ever-increasing reckless operations.