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https://www.factcheck.org/2023/05/scicheck-young-children-do-not-receive-medical-gender-transition-treatment/
It sounds like most surgeries that are happening to "children" are likely minors that are 16 years or older?
I just assume the anti-trans activists use "children" only to mean "minor" (a bit like how anti-abortion activists refer to zygotes and fetuses as "babies").
Also, the numbers aren't adding up, how likely is it that the 4,000+ surgeries the anti-trans activists are claiming happened to "children" all happened between 2022 and 2023 (when the numbers from other insurance claims analysis show less than a thousand from 2019 to 2021)? (Maybe the Reuters analysis didn't have as much data as the anti-trans activists have, but the anti-trans activists play it loose with facts and science all the time, so I admit skepticism about the veracity of their data, esp. when it contradicts other reports.)