What can we do as a society, and as parents, to reduce the number of girls who mistakenly transition?

Get Stonewall out of schools.

I think we need to keep them off the internet and discuss this stuff in real life, we also need it out of the schools so if the topic ever comes up it is discussed at home and not in the classroom as the framing of that for me is all wrong.

I don't think this is going away any time soon but we need to understand gender dysphoria more and give a balance to what kids are exposed to.

I don't have a teen or pre-teen kid but I would not allow magazines for a girl or video games for a boy (at least not the violent ones or the ones where you can take to others online).

We need to encourage the understanding of someone being different or feeling confused or sad and look at how we can help them without harming them.

We need to stop schools automatically affirming girls when they say they are boys.

It came in to my last workplace with no open discussion, a member of the senior leadership team was surprised to hear staff discussing two girls who had "transitioned".

I heard other staff describing being told by students that they wanted to be known as John and he from now on. The response from staff was "okay, no problem".

We always use a student's preferred name but I can't think of any other aspect where we give students so much power over teachers.

Helping girls learn that their bodies are more than objects to be looked at and judged. That as girls they can be strong and capable and inhabit their physicality.

I watched that baseball movie with Madonna and remember being struck with how wonderful it must feel to be able to use your body as an amazing, powerful tool for movement.

It doesn’t have to be a sport, but getting girls outside, doing things, not just being a thing. Horses and lifting weights reconciled me to my less than perfect body. It can do things; difficult and challenging things. It doesn’t need to wait for approval from society that it conforms to some fake ideal. Being outside, getting tired and dirty in the service of something other than appearance matters as much for girls as for boys.

And great role models. All the amazing women who defied convention to climb mountains or cross deserts or build bridges. It’s only as I’ve got old that I see so clearly how the history of women has been hidden, to make women seem less and their achievements minor.

It is imperative that we teach children that they do not need to play pretend just because someone else is. That people have a right to their own beliefs but they do not have the right to demand that others share those beliefs.
We need to persuade schools to stop bringing in lobbyist groups to teach children they were born in the wrong body if they do not comply with sex role stereotypes..