Is the trans kids trend over? Aibu to wonder what happened to the kids caught up in it in the 2010s?

Gender Profiles and Mental Health in Prepubertal TGD Children Recruited through Gender-affirming Care Networks: Baseline Parent-report Findings from the Gender Journey Project'

WPATH conference is in November. This is an upcoming presentation.

https://wpath.org/wpath-29th-scientific-symposium/

https://s2.goeshow.com/wpath/annual/2026/conference_program_sessions.cfm?session_key=73D04D8F-D7B7-8AF2-CA1F-597986B1C796&session_date=Saturday, Nov 07, 2026

Edit - sorry, not sure where the youtube vid came from. That's another WPATH doc, but not relevant to the post.

Edit again - link to the presentation isn't working, but it's there on the webpage.

Another presentation:

'Lactation Induction in a Transgender Woman: Case Report'

Reia Massaro

And another:

'about:blank A Scoping Review of Sexual Behavior and Sexual Health Research in Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents'

All of these are at the link above, though I don't think the links embedded are working.

I did not know about the Justin Walters link.

I know an autistic girl who transitioned pretty much on the dot of her 18th birthday two years ago. She had a beard in six months. Her poor body will be ruined, she's tiddly and fragile.

Phimosis is not a very rare birth defect. It affects about 1% of males some of whom will require circumcision so they can pee normally. Some boys urinate through a pinhole with the rest of the foreskin ballooning with the pressure of the urine.

Ok I should have said he didn't actually start medication till older just decided he was male at age 10, sorry if I made it sound bad. The mastectomy was about 20 years of agr

What hormones or medication would you need to take to affirm a non-binary, pansexual or asexual identity?

Oddly¹, non-binary men tend to do nothing but wear makeup, whereas non-binary women have a distressing tendency to want their breasts chopped off.

The other two, being sexualities rather than gender identities, would no more need medication or hormones than being gay or straight does.

¹ Really not that oddly, given the misogyny of the whole thing.

Do you also have statistics on rates of suicide, self-harm, drug addiction, alcoholism and enduring mental health illness among people who have been denied the treatment? For the record, I am not holding any fixed view on this issue. I just think the impact assessment is not quite as simple as saying "it's 100% harmful to do it" without considering possible risks of not doing it.

Err, none.

That would be complicated by the need to consider also the rates of suicide, self-harm, drug addiction, alcoholism and enduring mental health illness among people who neither transitioned nor wanted to.

And first let's define alcoholism! If you are on Mumsnet, having a glass of wine with a meal practically means you are an alcoholic.

The BBC have been pushing all this for at least the last decade.

Every thing that bloody happens in the world they get a Drag Queen on to tell the world their take on it. It is only very recently they have even started to begrudgingly acknowledge that not everyone thinks people can change sex. Which they cannot.

Suicide is a complex issue and multifactorial. Louis Appleby is clear on the need to approach the subject carefully and without making sweeping statements on the possible causes.

That said, here is a study:

'Individuals who underwent gender-affirming surgery had a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not (3.47% vs. 0.29%, RR 95% CI 9.20-15.96, p < 0.0001). Compared to the tubal ligation/vasectomy controls, the risk was 5.03-fold higher before propensity matching and remained significant at 4.71-fold after matching (3.50% vs. 0.74%, RR 95% CI 2.46-9.024, p < 0.0001) for the gender affirmation patients with similar results with the pharyngitis controls.
Conclusion
Patients who have undergone gender-affirming surgery are associated with a significantly elevated risk of suicide, highlighting the necessity for comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support.'

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11063965/

WRT the success or otherwise of 'transition' as a treatment for 'gender incongruence', the Cass Report was very clear that there is insufficient evidence, and that most existing studies used are of low quality.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-68863594

'The Cass report, external, published on 10 April, looked at gender identity services for under-18s in NHS England.

It found gender medicine to be operating on "shaky foundations" when it came to the evidence for medical treatment like prescribing hormones to pause puberty or to transition to the opposite sex.

It said: "The reality is that we have no good evidence on the long-term outcomes of interventions to manage gender-related distress."'

I'd still class that as harmful, it's just that the benefits outweigh the harms, which is true of a lot of medications and surgery.

I had to have a circumcision as an adult for medical reasons. Harm no.1, it bloody well hurt for a good week afterwards. And harm no.2, sex feels less good. Not a lot less good, but enough. Obviously, children having the procedure done will never know the difference, but there is a difference.

In my case, the benefits very much outweighed those harms, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

Its like lopping off a leg because you've got frostbite. Yes, obviously the leg needs to come off, but you've still got to live with the consequences of not having that leg

AUD is defined in DSM5
It is complicated. Every clinical research is. Doesn't mean we don't need to have a full picture when making a clinical decision.

I'd bet money on its the parents lying saying it's the school to cover their own complicity

Was this in the uk? What did this child say had led them to believe that they were not the sex they were?

The parents in this article would definitely say the BBC was full of it:

https://archive.ph/eLgt7

”A formal complaint has been sent to Ofcom by the Bayswater Support Group, which represents hundreds of parents who believe the broadcaster has promoted one-sided coverage of sex and gender.”

Catza
AUD is defined in DSM5

It is indeed. What is not defined there is alcoholism, mostly because, unlike AUD, alcoholism is a colloquial term.

Can we go back to using the term ‘androgynous’ as well please. All this ‘non-binary’ and ‘gender fluid’ is just re-packaging something that already exists.

There was also a mental health study specifically of teenagers (very low quality, massive dropout rate) showing that mental health got worse for those receiving treatment and stayed largely stable or improved in those who weren't. I'll have a dig for the reference later.

Given those issues are quite high in the cohorts who have ASD/trauma/SA and that overlaps completely with 'trans', that is impossible to make out.

Yep and sex not gender

Quite a few still in the secondary girls' school I teach at, including one who's just had a name change on the register this year. I think it must be particularly confusing for them that they (all FTM obviously) are attending a girls' school and tend to stay for GCSEs. And then their name on the official exam records, and I presume certificates, is their original one.

You also do notice how many - majority - are ND girls, particularly autistic. We have been told about new guidance during INSET that schools should not initiate social transitioning. For my part, I will call the kids whatever makes them feel comfortable and has already been officially changed by the school eg name on register, but I worry for them.