"Hurr, must be transgender! Let's pump full of puberty blockers while they're still in their single digits in age."
I wonder how many of these "transgender" 5-year-olds grow out of it in a decade or two. Many must be resentful their parents encouraged this nonsense for media attention too.
My younger daughter spent many years of her childhood saying she wanted to be a boy.
When I asked her about it recently, she said it was simply because she thought boys did more cool fun things and they could go outside and not wear a shirt when it was hot out.
As a teen, she dressed in very boy clothes, until she hit about 16 and then things started to change and now she’s all woman, and a very attractive one at that. But she still has a strong personality and tomboyish interests. She loves hiking and kayaking,
But she’s also got the radar on for Mr. Right.
But I never made a big deal about how she dressed. I let it go without comment and figured she’d outgrow it as she did. I figured the more I pushed, the worse it would be.