To be honest it REALLY sounds like you support the law

I am leaning towards not sterlising minors being a good thing because it is a life altering decision that Im not convinced a minor can make.

If you can’t be trusted to responsibly consume alcohol how can you be trusted to choose to be sterilised?

if you cared about factual reporting you would have also released the policy memo

I don’t follow US politics closely enough to be aware of the memo but I did read about the actual policy that was passed. As for banning puberty blockers, that isn’t what was passed by 81 Democrats.

I’m in a country with universal healthcare and laws play very little role in the practice of medicine.

Name the country and I will disprove your claim. Healthcare is always political, from the structure (public vs private) to what care is legal.

It’s pretty intellectually dishonest to frame doctors as mad scientist lobotomists barely restrained by a set of laws

It is even more dishonest to ignore history, the people who suffered and the progress that was made largely through changes to laws. Sometimes as a result of activism or protest.

you’ve got a lot of backwards conservative/incel beliefs

That’s amusing, Im married with children, vote left and support Unions

“tax dollars not spent to directly benefit YOU are a waste”

Wrong. Government spending that doesn’t benefit society as a whole is wasteful. There are never enough funds to sort every problem out and the particular topic you’re referring to here was a change by a centre left government that I support.

But you don’t care that laws aren’t what’s doing the protecting in those situations.

Go open a history book. That’s exactly what the laws are doing. You talk like someone with zero understanding of how governments work, or the history that has shaped governments and the systems they govern.