God, I tried to not to get invested in this thread before, but you know how that goes...
I've been married to a trans person for almost 20 years, and with her for longer. We've raised two wonderful, well adjusted children together. The ignorance some people have about trans people, particularly hurtful, hateful parents, is disgusting. Further, the idea of "protecting girls," whether it's from trans people in bathrooms (I know the above comment was sarcastic and not serious) or from themselves because they are questioning their own gender identity is infuriating to me as a woman. Nine times out of ten people want to protect women and girls from themselves, as though we don't deserve any autonomy. No one here has specifically singled out boys when it comes to medical privacy. Ask yourself why, hmm?
Kids NEED privacy from their parents, even if they have a healthy relationship with their parents. Fuck all, were none of you ever kids? Do you not remember the anxiety for what is now stupid little things that you felt? Now imagine that magnified if you have less than understanding parents, religious zealot parents, abusive parents, or authoritarian parents. Teachers, scout leaders, and yes -- MEDICAL DOCTORS -- are sometimes the only point of intervention and safety for oh so many kids.
So a couple of girls take some hormone arrestors that they later regret, as allegedly put forth by an author with an agenda. You know what they and their parents would likely regret more? If those kids had killed themselves or gotten on opiates in an effort to alleviate whatever they were going through. Because that is likely the alternative of what happens. My partner volunteers with trans youth, many are homeless because those loving parents that deserved to know all about their kid's medical care kicked them out on the street. Some of these kids are only 13 or 14 years old. A LOT of them turn to prostitution to get by, and most eventually end up raped, beaten, and addicted to drugs. And those are the lucky ones.
Let us use our brains for a moment. Let's suppose that there is a more than negligible amount of teen girls transitioning to male then later regretting it. Why is this? It's not because they got to talk to their doctor in private (spoiler, hormones can be found online without a doc, a committed kid will get them one way or another). No, it's because they live in a society where they feel they have no power, and for some reason having a penis makes them think they will have power, autonomy, and happiness. Why is that, I wonder? But yeah, let's attack the idea of medical privacy instead of looking at what we are really doing, as a society, to our kids.
I wonder if those against medical privacy have any experience with the teen homeless population? Many of these kids are out of foster care, but just as many are from what society likes to call "good homes." Kicked out for a range of offenses, from being LGBT, having sex, getting pregnant, bad grades, smoking pot, drinking, talking back, etc. The parents dream up these stories to make themselves the victim, but many of these kids really are good kids that were going through normal human things and instead of support from mommy and daddy, they were given tough "love" and the "my way or the highway" speech and sent out on the streets. No intervention, and believe it or not, most of the time it's not treated as a crime for the parents to kick their kids out, even in my very blue state. It's despicable.