Huh? Nowhere in my post did I I say or suggest that "most genital surgeries in very young kids" are related to "gender transformation." I didn't mention genital surgeries in young kids at all, in fact.
All I did was provide evidence including published facts and figures you can check for yourself to refute your erroneous claim that news, discussion and concern "about minors getting transition surgeries is just hysterical nonsense."
The fact that you seem to think that "transition surgeries" = genital surgeries makes it very clear you are not well informed on this topic.
The most commonly performed "transition surgeries" are done on body parts other than the genitals.
In the USA, by far the single most common "transition surgery" today and over the past decade+ is double mastectomy for female patients who "identify as" the opposite sex or, increasingly, as "non-binary" or another novel gender identity such as vapogender.
In the USA, double mastectomies for the purpose of "gender transition" and "gender identity affirmation" are routinely done on girls when they are still under 18.
The paper I cited in my earlier showed that 94% of the females age 13-24 who were active patients at the youth gender clinic at Children's Hospital Los Angeles in the first half of 2016 felt getting a double mastectomy was a "very important" part of affirming their gender identities, an essential milestone in their "gender journeys." Of the female patients who already had double mastectomy, half went under the knife to have their breasts removed surgically when they were 17 or younger. Some were 13, 14 and 15 when surgeons cut their breasts off.
Another gender clinic on the West Coast has reported that one of its patients had her breasts surgically removed for gender identity reasons when she was 12.
No matter how confidently and repeatedly you claim that "medical treatments for gender dysphoria in kids...are overwhelmingly non-invasive and reversible," this is not true.
A double mastectomy is not reversible. Once breast tissue, mammary glands and ducts have been removed, there is no way to get them back. There's no such thing as a breast transplant. There are no drugs or regimens that can cause a girl or woman to grow new breasts once she has had her breasts cut off.
The hormonal interventions routinely used treat gender distress in kids in the US such as use of GnRH analogs to halt puberty have a host of irreversible negative, unwanted effects on females too.
In Sweden, for example, 13 adolescent girls who were put on puberty blockers for gender dysphoria at the Karolinska Institut were found to have developed such severe bone density problems that they have spinal fractures, deformed discs and frequent broken bones - and the Karolinska had to report itself to Swedish law enforcement for having committed criminal medical malpractice and human rights violations on these girls. These female youngsters are in constant pain and can't stand for more than 15-20 minutes at a time. Plus, their height has ended up being stunted, so they are much shorter than they would have been otherwise - which makes it even more difficult for them to "pass" as males. None of this is reversible.
As for your appeal to authority: Just because the staff who run the headquarters of American establishment medical bodies like the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics and Endocrine Society have come out saying they approve of subjecting kids to "gender medicine" doesn't mean youth "gender medicine" is beneficial and safe. These orgs - which were all founded to to promote the interests of doctors/medical practitioners - have not allowed their members to weigh in and vote on the topic. The policy statements approving "gender medicine" on children and adolescents have all been written by staffers in DC and rubber stamped by small numbers of officials. Moreover, all these orgs have made huge mistakes in the past.
The AMA has a particularly odious origin story and lots of ugly chapters in its history. In 1941, the AMA held a conference and published an article in its journal (JAMA) promoting a new procedure then starting to come into vogue, frontal lobotomy:
"This procedure is said be effective in removing the anxiety and in abolishing the responses (suicidal, homicidal and so on) to the delusions and hallucinations in certain depressive states, such as involutional melancholia, and in certain of the more agitated schizophrenic states. Psychotic persons subjected to this procedure also seem to lose much of their concern with self and with their own visceral and mental activities; they develop a more normal, healthy attitude toward their environment."
Not very long ago, a whole generation of kids developed iatrogenic peanut allergies because of the AAP's totally wrong-headed advice that babies and young children should never be exposed to any peanut products.
In the 1950s, 60s and early 70s, the Endocrine Society promoted putting American girls on high-dose estrogen made from pregnant horse urine (Premarin) to prevent them from growing "too tall" because some sexist male endocrinologists thought that boys and men wouldn't want to date or marry girls and women who were "too tall." In the sexist minds of these medical men, a girl or woman was "too tall" if she was over 5'6".
Also, American establishment medical orgs like the AMA, AAP and ES have not conducted thorough, in-depth reviews of the evidence base for, and the wide-ranging consequences of, youth "gender medicine" like medical authorities in Finland, Sweden, France and the UK all have done. All those countries have now decided to halt medical "gender transition" of minors through use of so-called puberty blockers, (cross) sex hormones and surgeries - and to advise and exercise caution about social transition of under 18s too.They've all published their findings and links to the underlying research online.
The UK's Cass Investigation is a good place to start if you're interested. So is the 4-part Swedish TV documentary series, "Trans Train," the first part of which aired in 2018. Another good source of info the Society for Evidence-Based Gender Medicine.