This is how it works in many, many cases. For example, look up Susie Green, former CEO of trans charity Mermaids. She's talked about how, as a toddler, her son

This is how it works in many, many cases. For example, look up Susie Green, former CEO of trans charity Mermaids. She's talked about how, as a toddler, her son wanted to wear dresses, play with dolls, and so on. She initially took this to be a revelation that her son was gay, and, according to her, her husband was very homophobically against this, so they confiscated his toys and told him they're for girls only. So he started telling them that he wants to be a girl, and later became insistent that he is a girl. This led to him being put on puberty blockers, then cross-sex hormones at 13, and then Green taking him to Thailand at 16 (as such surgery at this age was and is illegal in the UK) to be castrated and have his penis and scrotum made into something that sort of looks like a vulva and vagina. Which, all in all, is quite an extreme intervention for a boy who just wanted to play with dolls. I think this is child abuse - don't you?