the anti-trans activists who push the narrative that kids are being mutilated with gender-affirming surgeries are essentially lying, surgeries are not offered to kids at all. The closest to that is that a minority of 17 year old trans boys have been able to get top surgeries (breast reduction), but this is again a small minority, and these are people on the cusp of being the age of the majority.

Meanwhile cis children are permitted access to surgeries like breast reduction, breast augmentation, and nose jobs without the gatekeeping or moral panic associated with gender affirming care for trans patients.

The very same activists pushing to deny trans people access to life-saving care under the guise of protecting children from mutilation are also the same people who support non-consensual surgeries on intersex children and babies ...

You can't make this up folks, the anti-trans activist Matt Walsh who held a protest called "End Child Mutilation" to protest surgeries that don't happen also supports the unethical and non-consensual mutilation of intersex babies and children.

(Presumably he also supports circumcision, but people seem to feel that kind of gential mutilation is acceptable, and it's less relevant to the hypocrisy of supporting the mutilation of children to force them into one gender or another while making up stories of genital mutilation so he can deny people access to surgeries when they choose it for themselves.)