Whether or not a child believes they are the opposite gender is opinion. You can't 100% tell if they will maintain that convinction into adulthood or if they are just confused kids.
Some haven't maintained that conviction. There are lawsuits over it as we speak with people who regret it saying they couldn't consent.
Note they are not claiming that they didn't say they consented at the time, but they are saying because they were children that they could not fully understand what they were saying and as such couldn't consent . And the issue is that there is no 100% way of testing for that.
You can't change your conviction about a hole in your heart 20 years later. It's a physical thing
What concerns me is a lot of people including users like Shock and Tenlaar are dismsising these people as unimportant because they are outliers.
I can't agree with that. It's a big serious issue. These are children we're talking about. People who don't know what Peanut Butter is made of.
There is no issue, though. Children need mental healthcare just like physical healthcare. The brain is just as important as any other organ or body system. The whole point of doctors is to diagnose these things and triage problems. Some people being misdiagnosed for mental issues is no more a final statement than misdiagnoses on physical health. If a doctor can't tell an opinion from a real condition, then they are a fucking quack. There is no tangible reason to worry about this any more than diagnosing children with other mental/developmental disorders or physical orders.
