I don’t really care if some grown man wants to get his Johnson chopped off. But this stuff with the kids is outrageous. They are going to be screwed up for the rest of their lives, just so their parent(s) have bragging rights. But what to do? I would be loathe to abridge parental rights because that is a double edged sword. We may have to let them screw up their kids so we can raise ours to be healthy and sane. As awful as this is, the real problem is: how the hell did we get to where this is a thing?
We got to where this is a thing through several incremental steps, methinks, although it basically boils down to following the money. Consider the old argument that gender differences are merely social or cultural constructs. This stops sane proponents of women’s rights (like Camille Paglia and Martina Navratilova) from arguing that women can’t consider themselves men and vice versa. Add in the special privileges accorded women these days what with affirmative action for jobs and schooling and the increasingly lucrative women’s athletic contests and mediocre athletic men have an interest in being considered women, at least temporarily. Add in the cultural pressure not to judge anyone’s sexual tastes. It is a seriously messed up recipe for societal devolution.