Context: I’m a family medicine doctor, so this is based on my personal experience, but also that of colleagues.

I think the surge in people coming out as trans is a fad and (in our population) most are autistic people who don’t recognize how they feel and therefore think they are trans. Spoiler alert: once they transition, they still don’t know how they feel, but now they are more conflicted and psychiatric comorbidities worsen.

I also believe it does a lot of harm to children. I can only explain my own anecdotal example. When I was young, I was abused and therefore developed sexuality early on. There was a time of a few years when I couldn’t feel anything because of the constant punishment and where I was sexually exploring my body. Even back then there was a lot of media and the thought of being a women was exciting (my abuse person was a women). If back then there had been the option to go to a doctor and transition, I had probably done it as to escape the abuse. There wasn’t, but if you then add media, people and encouraging parents who tell you “your must be trans”, this can very easily manipulate a kid, even young adult to do the step. Therefore I personally believe this whole topic isn’t researched enough and there are issues a lot of people fear to talk about. Concluding I’m happy that I didn’t have the option to transition as I’m 100% a man, but sexual thoughts, better medical options and a supportive environment, would’ve easily pushed me to change my body.