There are well-traveled websites where transsexuals express their regrets at transitioning, the broken family ties, the horrors of surgeries gone wrong, the ravages of continual hormone treatments, and their attempts to return to normal. Doing this to children is downright evil.
You said it!
For some, it was an attention grab.
For some, it is because they realized they had an underlying psychological issue that was not properly treated.
For some, it is an endocrine imbalance that evens out over time (usually by 24).
For my child, it is an incurable endocrine disorder and a life sentence. NCCAH destroyed the last 10 years of his life. I’m still holding out hope that God will intercede, because science cannot help.
And no, my child was not abused, molested, raised in a wild environment, etc. He was raised in a loving, intact Christian home with conservative parents, a Renaissance education, well-traveled, and stable. My child is extremely intelligent (scored in the top 1% state-wide in standardized tests), artistic, well-behaved, loving, thoughtful, and hardworking. He would not wish gender dysphonia on his worst enemy.
If he de-transitioned, it would be like my child coming back from the grave.