I met a trans last weekend. Boy to girl. I was interviewing teenagers for a summer program. He seemed comfortable acting like a girl, or kind of neutral. But what really struck me was that this young person seemed autistic to me. Gender transition does not help that. I am mortified to think that when this young man attains his full height, which could be well over 6 feet since he’s part danish, and his shoulders, which are already very square, broaden out to their full extent, he is going to regret how much he has maimed and contorted his body. And the complications this presents in a summer program with overnight stay are really off-putting. I really like this kid. But I am furious at his parents and the school and medical system that has maimed him before he has had a chance to grow up.
I do not know how I will handle meeting the parents again. I will pray on it.
For girls to boys, it is something like 70% of them are on the spectrum for autism. Almost all of the other 30% have other mental issues such as OCD, anxiety, etc.
And rather than treating the actual issue that is causing them such mental anguish, these “doctors” treat them with the latest fad (VERY similar to lobotomies).
And after years of still no relief, they end up killing themselves. And it is blamed on people not accepting them as trans, rather than them not being treated for their actual issues.
I was relating one account to my son about a boy wanting to be a girl, and he had the support of his family, community, even his church. He was quite a long way through the process and he killed himself. His note said that he would never be the perfect girl.
My son quipped “No girl is.”
Oh - in reading about autism, many of them do have amazing skills in something, and want to be recognized as special for that skill or ability. But even if some people do recognize it that still can not be enough because they want to be THE best at it and EVERYONE to notice it.
I wonder if they think “Well, I know I’m different, and these people online say that I’m different and special because I’m actually trans - and if I become trans then EVERYONE will know how different and special I am!”