‘“This is what I’ve always wanted,” Ryace told her mother as they left the hospital.’
Someone (not the obviously indoctrinated parents) needs to explain to the child that this path leads to sterility, increased mental problems and risk of suicide, a permanent open wound that will constantly get infected, and a lifelong need for expensive medical treatments that won’t result in a capacity for a normal sex life, or likely for any kind of normal life at all. Then ask Ryace if that is what he really has always wanted.
Agreed. The kindest and most considerate way to care for these messed up, brain washed kids is to be completely honest about what to expect from the chemicals and surgeries, as well as convince them that they are going to destroy themselves permanently over a temporary issue.
As for the parents, teachers, and other adults who groom the children to meet their unrealistic and abusive expectations, those people may be beyond help but should be permanently separated from the innocents.
Peach