The proposed medical guidance should not be issued as it usurps the role of parents in determining how best to address complex issues that they may encounter in raising their children.   Parents are the ones who are there day to day and who have the best interests of their children at heart.   As such, parents should have every option available to educate themselves and decide on a course of action in helping their children navigate the challenges of growing into adulthood.   It should not be the role of the state to tell parents what is best for their children or limit the options available in such a sensitive area,  where the state knows nothing of the individual child, family or situation.   In the end, the state won't care whether the person whose maturation it interfered with grows to be a happy, well-adjusted adult -- it will be the parents who care and the parents who will live with the consequences.