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Thank you again!

Indeed:"Bazelon’s reporting suggests a divide between more cautious gender clinicians — who insist on comprehensive assessment and are uncertain about the surge in teenagers seeking trans medical interventions — and the radicals who are uncompromising about what they see as a trans health rights issue."

However that is not the only divide- Sweden's Karolinska's hospital restricted new treatments of minors to clinical trials. More restrictive than both of these groups, which by no means span all the expert opinion or what the evidence supports.

That is, there are indeed two groups which advocate two approaches to medical intervention in the US, but it is by no means the case that this is the whole debate. Given the weak evidence, many clinicians find the wpath guidelines not cautious enough. See segm....

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