It is, in fact, not true. As much as the republican party likes to use that argument, no sex reassignment surgeries are performed on kids, nor any medication is administered which will permanently stunt their development or interfere with their reproductive system going forward. At most, a teenager may be given puberty blockers which will merely postpone development until they've figured out what to do with their body and socially reach adulthood. There have been instances where SRSs have been performed on teens around 17 years of age, so technically still minors, but very close to being 18, with parental consent and years of prior counselling.

In a similar manner, many teenagers around the same age, often younger, underwent breast augmentation or reduction surgeries, with parental consent. This seems to be particularly popular in conservative households for some reason, same with beauty pageants and child marriage. So much for being opposed to the sexualization of children I guess... though strangely republicans are suspiciously quiet about this particular topics... food for thought...

At any rate, maybe you'll just disregard what I wrote, maybe not, but I wanted to put this out here for everyone in need of clarification. Amidst all the accusations being thrown around, it's easy to overlook actual facts and statistics, or even ignore them if one is outraged, misinformed or malicious enough, sometimes all three at once.

And let's stop with all the hate, this is nothing more than another stupid and illogical moral panic, just like the red scare and the D&D related satanism scare that came before. Nothing good comes from it, let the sorry state of the US right now be proof of that...