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Uhm...yeah. Everybody is against gender affirming surgery for minors.
Contrary to what right-wing media likes to claim, it doesn't happen.
What does happen for transgender youth is puberty blockers. That allows them to delay the hormonal changes of puberty so that they may make an easier physical transition, if they so choose, when they are an adult. In the meantime, trans girls can more easily tuck and won't develop a 5 o'clock shadow or deep voice, trans boys will not be growing breasts or menstruating, and both retain more a more gender-ambiguous frame.
But puberty blockers have other uses besides gender-affirming care, and they've long been proven incredibly safe and non-permanent.
While I can see that early intervention with puberty blockers would help transgirls, it seems like transboys would need to take something more than just testosterone to get the height growth, once they reach the age of majority. HGH, maybe?
It's interesting how much of the language around anti-trans rights centers around 'men pretending to be women, and they entirely forget about transmen.
I'm not a doctor, but my laymen understanding is that it doesn't stop puberty, it just delays it. So they end up going through a normal puberty, just at a later age.