The answer is prompt evidence based care for all people with mental health issues. The answer is not activist directed unevidenced medicalisation of distressed children.
The answer is also not ghoulish fear mongering that tells these kids they'll kill themselves without puberty blockers. Thank God no children read this forum. You are beyond irresponsible.
Evidence
Psychiatric disorders (particularly anxiety, depression and acts of self-harm) in treatment-seeking transgender people are much more common than in cisgender people (Arcelus et al., 2016; Bouman et al., 2017).
There is evidence that this increased rate of psychiatric disorders can, in part, be explained by societal responses to transgender people.
For example, pupils who present as transgender or gender-diverse are also disproportionately affected by bullying in schools (Bradlow et al. 2017) and are therefore at higher risk of experiencing poor mental health, particularly self-harm and suicide attempts.
Regardless of cause, it is essential that transgender people can seek help in confidence for such psychological distress or illness. While gender-affirming medical interventions improve, wellbeing and mental health in transgender and gender diverse adults (Dhejne et al., 2016), more evidence is needed on management of gender-diverse children, particularly those who are pre-pubertal. This includes understanding how gender dysphoria in childhood continues into adolescence, as well as the impact of interventions to begin the process of transition in very young gender diverse people (Olson-Kennedy et al., 2016). Long-term follow-up studies of young transgender people are needed. The extent of use of conversion therapies with transgender people is unclear. Published papers on conversion therapies in lesbian, gay and bisexual people do not always state whether or not transgender and gender-diverse people are included (Mizock & Lewis, 2008). A review of academic publications has recently been completed and submitted for publication (Wright et al., 2018). The findings suggest that specific treatments to persuade transgender and gender-diverse people to accept their gender as assigned at birth are rare, but there is evidence of barriers to transgender people receiving appropriate help to enable medical and social transition. Denying access to gender affirming treatment is likely to have a detrimental effect on the wellbeing of transgender and gender-diverse people.
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/docs/defa...statements/ps02_18.pdf?utm_source=copilot.com
Please do not continue to say that you are protecting trans youth. Most clearly you do not. One of the biggest challenges that trans youth faces is the societal stigma from their difference to cisnormative expectations.
Each time truth is put under your nose, your enter Rowling's language of sinister worlds.
The evidence is plentiful.
