I knew a 12 year old kid who’d dress up in his mama’s wig and sparkly twirler outfits. Then puberty hit and all that changed. He later married a woman and has kids. Imagine that harm if he’d been put on all those hormones and had his thing whacked off.
What's scary is that parents who are well-meaning might take a child to a psychiatrist or counselor thinking they would help the child resolve this, but instead the "professional" would reinforce the problem! Same with homosexuality -- instead of telling a kid, you're not gay, it's normal to have questions, confusion or whatever (esp with what kids are bombarded with these days), they just encourage the kid to "experiment" and "accept who they are."
I suspect he managed to “whack off” his doodle all by himself.