I really have a hard time believing that, especially with the plethora of people exclaiming great and deep regret of having underwent this kind of surgery.
Even in the most fringe cases, I cannot agree that it is a neccesity for survival in any sense of the word if depression is the symptom you're arguing.
I don't care abut what you agree or not. Treating kids with gender disphoria is a BASIC need for their survival.
That is not to say depression isn't real, or to discredit the struggles of having to deal with it - but there are certainly ways of working with it that doesn't involve irreversably altering your body.
We do not play with depression.
Though if someone who is of legal age has gone through consultation with the implications of such a surgery still wants to go through with it - more power to them.
People here talk about helping kids, but they are ready to abandon kids dying and suffering just because they can't accept that sometimes, they can't have their way.
Sorry, but if you want to help kids, you do EVERYTHING to help them, not just what suits your values.