Compare and Contrast - Ages and Stages

The [Democrat-dominated] Michigan Supreme Court has now ruled that 19 and 20 year olds murderers cannot be sentenced to life without parole for their crimes.  This is an increase from the prior 18 and under ruling that barred life without parole for those 18 and under.

MiLive: No mandatory life sentences for 19- and 20-year-olds, Michigan Supreme Court rules

600 (yes, six hundred) 19-20 year old murderers in Michigan will now need to be re-sentenced.

The ruling is based on the idea that even 19-20 year old's brains are not fully developed and thus its unfair to impose a life sentence for a decision they made then:

The central arguments for exempting juveniles and young adults from mandatory life sentences has been that their brains are simply less developed, their character less fixed and their control over their environments more limited than is true for adult offenders.

“Children have a ‘lack of maturity and an underdeveloped sense of responsibility,’ leading to recklessness, impulsivity, and heedless risk-taking,” the United States Supreme Court wrote in 2012 in Miller v. Alabama, ruling that sentencing juveniles to life without parole constituted cruel and unusual punishment.

Yet, also in Michigan, a person with an brain that is, verily as determined by law, simply less developed can get "gender affirming care"  and irreversibly change their bodies at a far younger age than that.

The Detroit News:  Trans kids' treatment can start younger, new guidelines say

With puberty blockers permitted to be taken in Michigan at as young as 8 years of age, and hormone treatments at 14, not to mention surgery - far, far below the "recklessness, impulsivity, and heedless risk-taking" of a 19-20 year old. 

But, it's totes ok to impose a life sentence on children with irreversible changes to their bodies.

The lack of consistency is rather impressive.