This is a weird article. The author clearly has an agenda they're pushing which the researcher doesn't appear to actually believe in: The title claims that si

This is a weird article. The author clearly has an agenda they're pushing which the researcher doesn't appear to actually believe in: The title claims that since we haven't figured out effective conversion therapy yet (allegedly) it must not be possible, though later on in the Q&A the researcher explicitly talks about requiring an evaluation being needed if a person's mental distress is related to actual gender dysphoria vs some other condition like schizophrenia. The first half of the Q&A is all rosy about transgenderism not being a choice. Then the second half is when the admissions of people realizing they were mistaken and the risks start popping up: On needing to be cautious about treating children: > If you knew for certain that a boy that is 10 to 12 years old would be stable in his desire to be a girl for the rest of his life...then everything would work out perfectly. But there is no certainty in that On hormonal treatments being risky: > [It] is not harmless; like any treatment, it can have adverse effects... absolutely nothing is known about the treatment of children with blockers on the brain. > You see transgender people in good health, but there are no long-term studies to know how they age or what effect some changes we have observed have in the brain. On trans brains being somehow different from cis brains (but not like the cis brains of the gender they want): > We have observed that there are brain differences in cis and trans men and cis and trans women.