The Left’s big lie here is that “conversion therapy” is “wrong” and should be criminalized but counseling a child/teen/minor to dress as the opposite sex, encouraging such fantasy, and administering horomonal treatments and even using surgery IS conversion therapy (and it is “sacred” to the Left).
Same with the mentoring/grooming homosexuals do when they “shield” minors from counseling to not “question” or “experiment” with homosexuality.
We were told that homosexuality was about the actions of consenting adults in private. It sure isn’t anymore. And they swore that there was no agenda either.
Hormone treatments can be obtained on the very first visit if the kid has done enough research on the trans sites and can lie well. Sometimes it takes two visits.
Dr. Lisa Littman ran a survey of parents of kids with “Rapid Onset Gender Disorder”. Of course the trans cult says that it was not “scientific”. That may be true - but it sure warrants more study:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202330
Excerpt:
Parents identified the sources they thought were most influential for their child becoming gender dysphoric. The most frequently answered influences were: YouTube transition videos (63.6%); Tumblr (61.7%); a group of friends they know in person (44.5%); a community/group of people that they met online (42.9%); a person they know in-person (not online) 41.7%.
In contrast to the majority of responses, two participants commented that they didn’t think the sources influenced their child to become gender dysphoric, rather they gave their child a name for their feelings or gave the child confidence to come out. The following quotes illustrate the dominant quantitative findings.
One parent wrote, “We believe the biggest influence was the online pro-transition blogs and youtube videos. We feel she was highly influenced by the ‘if you are even questioning your gender-you are probably transgender’ philosophy…
In the ‘real world’ her friends, other trans peers, and newfound popularity were additional areas of reinforcement.” Another respondent described the online influence as part of a different question, “I believe my child experienced what many kids experience on the cusp of puberty—uncomfortableness!—but there was an online world at the ready to tell her that those very normal feelings meant she’s in the wrong body.”
Note - some of the youtube transgenders are “famous”, and promote their various speaking tours around the country!