Easy meat - absolutely.
Especially when people like Devon apparently visit 3 schools a week with this kind of bunkum:
Oh hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it?
www.tes.com/news/transphobes-are-driving-childrens-confusion-about-gender-not-trans-community-or-their
Anti-trans voices broadly fall into two camps, the first being a kind of grunting incredulity and a refusal to accept transgenderism as a phenomenon, which tends to come from the political right wing. The second is TERFS (trans exclusionary radical feminists) who believe that the social acknowledgment of transgender women threatens the hard-won rights and status of people who were born women, and they tend to be on the left. Both weave elaborate webs in an attempt to disguise what is, in reality, simple transphobia. Yet, as Owen Jones recently pointed out in a piece for thee Guardianan^, they are dusting off the exact same arguments that were used to protest against the abolishment of Section 288_ back in 2003.
These include but are not limited to:
1. 'It’s a mental illness'
The same people who once claimed being gay was a "perversion" that needed to be "cured", rather than "encouraged", now say that those with "gender dysphoria" need "sympathy and therapeutic support", as opposed to being allowed to live their lives according to their true gender identity.
Ignoring the wide variety of possible traumatic experiences and co morbid mh issues many yp have with GD.
What does living a true GI mean exactly?
5. ‘They can’t take it back’
The "what if children wrongly think they’re gay and say it and try it and hate it?" brigade are now claiming that "children as young as 5 are being offered gender realignment surgery". I cannot say this loudly enough: there is absolutely no evidence for this. Psychologists and endocrinologists are generally reluctant to provide hormone therapy to anyone under the age of 16, and obtaining sex realignment surgery prior to the age of 18 is almost impossible in most countries throughout the world. Furthermore, transgender people,,_ who know only too well the pain and distress associated with being in the wrong body, are the last people who would encourage gender realignment on a whim.
Ummm well. I don't need to comment much on this bit...
Not much on safeguarding there. Healthy dollop of cognitive dissonance. I know which piece I'd take heed of if I were a HT. plus it's also sympathetic and inclusive of trans identifying young people too.