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In short No.

Can’t drink, can’t smoke, can’t leave home without parental consent, cant gamble, can’t get a credit card, can’t get a mortgage, can’t drive, if they work a minimum wage job they get paid near enough 50% the wage of an adult doing the same job, can’t get a tattoo, can’t be interviewed by the police without an appropriate adult present, can’t serve on a jury, can’t write a will. can’t marry, can’t serve in the armed forces (can join with parental consent but basically in an education only role until 18), can’t watch porn, can’t buy fireworks, can’t vote (unless it suits the government on special occasions), and get special treatment at court including for the most serious of crimes. Infact a 16 Y/O can’t even view half the films at the cinema or buy the latest call duty.

Why are any of these things more serious than medial consent?

16 year olds should be making the minimal amount of major decisions possible and this includes medical consent. In the UK you’re not an adult until your are 18 and this is to protect kids, not hinder them.

This isn’t a negative opinion of 16 year olds. Like the rest of us I was 16 year old once and I of course knew it all back then and believed that I was mature enough to do all of these things (except with the magic of hindsight I absolutely was not). The 16 year old brain simply isn’t close to being fully developed and should not be making life changing decisions.
In Scotland are you not an adult at 16?