What other pathologies or general bad decisions should parents go along with in order to prevent their children’s feeling rejected? Or to put it another way, what should parents NOT support and facilitate? Anything?
I said they didn’t play chess well with their decision. Of course they were correct. And if the child were 15, they probably chose correctly, I hope. But with the child being months away from making all of her own decisions anyway, they thought short term and “this is what I believe” took priority for them over long term connection to their brain damaged child who is going to need strong, loving parents to help her (or him, I don’t care which gender, not the point right now) get through the gauntlet of the psych and pop communities urging transition as the only right treatment for gender dysphoria.
Smarter was probably to keep the child with them and go along with what the child wanted to do at 18. Maybe slow down the process, maybe explain some truths to her. That only half the people who transition are at all happier. How suicide rates go up post transition if you’re not in the 50% that feels it worked. Yes, go along with it slowly, keeping her close and adding, drop by drop, some truths about her condition, slipping them in alongside all the BS she will be getting from the transition Industry. My opinion, they chose not the best solution for the long term happiness of their child.
I still don’t see how the parents could encourage their daughter to make wise choices about medical treatment by facilitating - and presumably paying for - medical treatment they believe is counterproductive.