Eva Marcushamer discusses teenagers starting sex-change treatments as early as age 12 in San Francisco, with some regretting those choices by 18. She questions why young people pursue these adult decisions so early and describes some cases as phases of confusion or rebellion.
Do you know how many teenagers in San Francisco, and I'm telling you this because I live there for six years, start sex change treatments at age 12? And by age 18, they realize that they're wrong, That it was just a phase, that it was just confusion, that it was just rebellion. You start seeing a lot of articles about these kids who made drastic decisions, like surgeries, like hormone treatments. I think we have to wait a bit. I don't understand the rush to live so fast. I don't get it. You know, life is so long. Why are we in such a hurry to grow up? Where the hell are we going? I mean, I don't know. I ask them where do they want to go? What do they want to do before their time? I don't know. Play with dolls, whatever they can. Well, that doesn't just apply to teenagers. I think young adults also want to have what they would have at 60. At 20, what's the rush? You lived it very closely. Yeah.
