Huh? VoR said "these experiments on the bodies of children only started quite recently." In response, you posted a paper by two non-medical people affiliated with the Manchester (UK) School of Law referring to the fact that in starting in the mid-1990s, puberty-blocking medications were prescribed to a small number of adolescents with severe sex/gender distress in the Netherlands after they had started puberty of adolescence and experienced increased distress due to the physical changes they were going through.
The paper does not mention that one of the first group of adolescents in the Netherlands treated with the blockers was a young male who died a gruesome death at age 18 due to horrific but predictable complications from the genital surgery sold to the poor kid as an essential and "life saving" part of " gender-affirming care."
Moreover, the experimental practice that originated in the Netherlands in the mid-1990s is very different to the practice that has gradually become the custom in "pediatric gender medicine" in the USA and some other places more recently. The youth in the Netherlands all had extensive psychotherapy first and throughout the process, and they were carefully screened.
In the past 15 years or so, the custom in countries like the US has been to skip psychotherapy and careful screening of sex/gender-distress and confused kids altogether, instead "affirming" a child's opposite-sex gender identity and putting them on the path for medical interventions as early as possible. As a result, kids with sex/gender distress have been put on "puberty blockers" at younger and younger ages to prevent them from starting puberty of adolescence in the first place. Which means 8, 9 and 10 for girls, and 10 and 11 for boys.
Tellingly, the part of the paper you chose to quote left out the important parts that come next. The full passage is as follows:
The Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP), in 1998, recommended delaying puberty in young adolescents who experienced strong and persistent “cross-sex identification” and distress around the physical body that intensifies with the onset of puberty. The RCP added:
"In order for adolescents and those with parental responsibility to make properly informed decisions, it is recommended that they have experience of themselves in the post-pubertal state of their biological sex.
"Where, for clinical reasons, it is thought to be in the patient’s interest to intervene before this, this must be managed within a specialist service with paediatric endocrinological advice and more than one psychiatric opinion3. (Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1998)"
The practice described in the full passage is very different from the practice that has since become the norm - which is to put children with sex/gender distress on "puberty blockers" before adolescence begins and keep them on the blockers for years so that they never ever "have [any] experience of themselves in the post-pubertal state of their biological sex."
For male children, this means doctors and parents starting and keeping kids on "puberty blockers" starting so early that the medicated young males never get a taste of what it's like to have a normal adolescent male sex drive and all that it entails or used to entail. Such as lots fantasies and thoughts about sex; wet dreams; erections; full-fledged orgasms; a whole lot of masturbating; crushes; puppy love; and the various kinds of social and sexual exploration and experimentation with others that comes from going to dances and parties, and engaging in real-life flirting, dating and romancing face to face and in the flesh.
Norman Spack MD supposedly is the first US physician to put male children on "blockers" so early they experienced none of the normal sexual awakening and maturation that puberty is suppsed to bring. Spack started doing this in 2005-6.