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Because gender affirming care for kids is mostly not hormones. More like puberty blockers and social stuff like changing their name.
Are puberty blockers not hormones?
They are the opposite. Hormones are produced by the body, and in order to prevent those changes, blockers are used.
So the only difference between a hormone and a hormone blocker is that a blocker is artificially manufactured? Don't some naturally produced hormones act as blockers? So blockers are essentially hormones in all but name cos we manufactured them?
You can try and muddle up the language, but it is pretty clear: estrogen and testosterone are the main female and male hormones. They both are present in everyone, and can block each other if one is dominant enough. So in that sense, yes, hormones can act as blockers, and that's the idea behind estrogen monotherapy for example. The ones called "blockers", like cyproterone acetate and other antiandrogens, don't have any effects on their own other than cancelling the effects of testosterone, in this case.
I prefer to think of it like this: forcing trans kids to go through puberty is the equivalent of forcing them to take hormones, the difference being they're produced naturally in their bodies. Blockers give them a chance to be free from those hormones, and eventually take the correct ones.