> You made a claim about medical professionals. That is not particularly relevant to what I claimed. I removed that part as I agree it wasn't relevant. > As f

> You made a claim about medical professionals. That is not particularly relevant to what I claimed. I removed that part as I agree it wasn't relevant. > As for criticism of the research that exists, I agree that it isn't very good. Unfortunately it's so poor that I judge it as being insufficient to use to form an opinion on this issue. It's much worse than the replication crisis at large, it's not clear that their methods prove what they claim in the first place if you look at their work. The pages I linked go into greater depth about why this is a difficult question to study and what the existing research gets wrong. > The online echo chambers that children, including my own, seek out very much push the ideology that any claim to be male, female, non-binary or whatever must be accepted at face value. That's as may be, but I suggest you read the WPATH standards of care if you're interested in what the medical community in general thinks about the medical treatment of trans people, including kids. It's a little out of date (2012), but if you can't find a knowledgeable medical professional nearby it's pretty much the gold standard, and is very well supported by evidence: https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc https://www.wpath.org/publications/soc In particular, adolescents seem much less likely to desist than younger children.