Look at the articles coming out spring 2015 on “the war on trans-kids”, where they are saying that if your son decides he’s your daughter, gosh, darn it, we need to put him in a dress, change his name, give hormones to inhibit puberty and ignore the 70-80% of kids who have that idea and abandon it for reality.
Source: Paul McHugh’s article in the Wall Street Journal, on why the first hospital to do transgender surgeries stopped
http://www.wsj.com/articles/paul-mchugh-transgender-surgery-isnt-the-solution-1402615120
Without wading through the article myself, do they address the question I raised about things they did 50 or 60 years ago?