Off topic but I remember years ago a mother and father had a severely handicapped daughter who was bed bound her entire life and would remain so. Her parents wanted physicians to perform a mastectomy and hysterectomy because they were elderly and knew taking care of her would be much easier with cleanliness and turning her.
It was a news story that made talk radio shows.
I've always believed everything should be decided by the parents. Vaccines, surgeries, school choice, everything. But they need all of the scientific information and so much seems agenda driven.
Gender affirming care actually runs contrary to medical science.
For example, boys born with Klinefelters (XXY chromosomes) may experience gender dysphoria but typically girls born with Turners Syndrome (one X and a damaged/partial second X) do not. Prior to the “affirmation” push, boys with Klinefelters were treated with testosterone and the dysphoria was mitigated. Now, they push to transition instead of to cure.
XYY Chromosome Syndrome can very infrequently cause gender dysphoria. I’m looking further into that.
NCCAH, CAH, and hyperthyroidism are all systems on overdrive. Usually, puberty blockers are used to slow the system down (one of the few legitimate helpful uses for it). Instead, they want to hack and alter.
But what they are doing now is horrific. Most cases of endocrine-based GD subside in the early 20s when puberty ends. A wait and see approach is needed.
I didn’t even touch on possible tumors, which can also play havoc on the endocrine system. Parents need to dig and push to rule out possible medical causes. If it’s not medical, it’s mental.
Hermaphrodites, ambiguous genitalia, intersexed also needs a wait and see approach or corrective (not transitioning) surgery to help the person live a normal life.
But yes, there are people actually born that way. They are not evil, not pedos, not groomed. They are how God made them.
And then there are a bunch of evil, creepy people climbing, uninvited, on the bus with them that don’t belong there. Drag queens are not trans. Cross-dressers are not trans. You don’t just wake up one day and decide to be trans at your convenience. It is a personal hell and incurable life sentence.
So how can you tell the difference?
Easy.
Truly trans people will fly under the radar, trying not to draw attention to themselves as “trans.” They want to be known as a good student, worker, professional, etc., to escape that prevailing sense of “otherness” that haunts their lives.
The pretenders will fly their flags high and proud, act like idiots, grab headlines, shove their “transgenderism” in your face.
If you met my daughter, you would think she is a bright, polite, respectful young man. Most people never know.