A common response I see about 'transing' kids is that it's mostly a strawman.

"No one's pushing kids to transition because they like sex-typed toys opposite of their sex," they say.

Let's go through the diagnostic criteria for GD in children to see if this is a strawman... https://twitter.com/Piblopan/status/1254443653281517568

1. Strong desire to be of the other gender or an insistence that they are the other gender.

2. Strong preference for wearing clothes typical of the opposite gender.

3. Strong preference for cross-gender roles in make-believe play or fantasy play.

4. Strong preference for the toys, games or activities stereotypically used or engaged in by the other gender.

5. Strong preference for playmates of the other gender.

6. Strong rejection of toys, games and activities typical of their assigned gender.

7. Strong dislike of their sexual anatomy.

8. strong desire for the physical sex characteristics that match their experienced gender.

Almost all of these 8 points relies not on the child's discomfort with their body, but with a discomfort of gender stereotypes, or expectations, of how boys and girls should act and behave.

A child doesn't know anything about sex or gender. If a girl plays with toys they see mostly boys playing with, they might easily think that they too are a boy.

To tell them that they were born in the wrong body is simply child abuse, setting them up for a life of confusion and distress as well-meaning adults continue to lead them down a harmful path.

How else can you explain the 4000% increase in children and teens expressing the desire to change their sex? Could it be the expectations our culture pushes onto them--that they can solve all their distress around gendered expectations by transitioning?

Sources:
[1] http://www.childrenshospital.org/conditions-and-treatments/conditions/g/gender-dysphoria/diagnosis-and-treatment

[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/09/16/minister-orders-inquiry-4000-per-cent-rise-children-wanting/

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