This conversation is incredibly important for those for whom medical care and support is critical to their health and well-being, but also for those who are caught up in a cultural zeitgeist, and particularly young and very young people. What disturbs me so much is the requirement by this community one be fully in no questions asked, or one becomes part of a fully opposed group.

Yesterday, after I stated I fully support human rights for these people, but I had concerns for younger people, I was deemed a genocidal terrorist.

If a parent with a child who has whatever dysmorphia comes up against that attitude, where that parent is required to either be all in and must follow a prescribed pathway towards medical intervention, or be called a genocidal terrorist, their child is potentially at risk for being funneled into a choice they are certainly too young to make and maybe making due to peer and cultural pressure.

All of this ignores the reality it is common for young children to go through periods where they want to behave as the other gender. This is normal, and parents can deal with it by saying, " Go ahead, do what you have to do, " until such time as that state passes, or it becomes clear there is actually a reason to consider a different path. But to lump all children who make that statement. "I want to be a boy " or "I want to be a girl, " directly into medical intervention, is astoundingly reactive. If that "shovelling" occurs due to pressure from the transgender activist community, then that is bordering on criminal.

If this continues unchecked and no questions are asked, or are permitted, and if we as a society cave to these threats and these negative terms, for instance genocidal terrorist, I am of the opinion we will see catastrophic repercussions in the next 10 years or possibly less.

There is a growing detransitioner community, - people who made certain choices based on peer pressure, who now feel they did not have the appropriate support to get through what they now know was a prolonged but ultimately temporary situation, and who, in addition to regretting their decision, are now also subject to attacks from the transgender activist community.