@Minglingpringle
Ah yes, motivations.
How do you respond to the growing evidence that huge numbers of the young people who want to transition are also young people with autism, depression , eating disorders, confusion and anxiety about their sexuality and other conditions -including the immature brain development of adolescents - which means that their thinking and logic processes are largely fucked up?
Do you think telling these young confused people that taking powerful, life changing, and irreversible chemical treatments, and having radical surgery on healthy body parts is a good way to help them to feel more at ease with themselves ,their sexuality and their post pubertal bodies ?
Or do you think that it might be more helpful to give them the help they need with their autism, eating disorders and depression and help them to overcome the anxiety they feel about themselves, their sexuality, their bodies, and their place in an uncertain world without offering them unhelpful solutions that do not address their primary needs and will, moreover, lead to a lifetime of taking medication with the likelihood of serious consequences like infertility ,heart issues and osteoporosis ?
And talking about motivation, what do you think was (and is) the motivation behind the medical teams at places like the Tavistock, and other clinics, who knew/know about the mental state of their young clients but chose/choose to ignore it, not offer appropriate treatment programmes and , in the case of the Tavistock ,did not think it worthwhile following up on the mental health of their clients to see if the taking of puberty blockers, doses of artificial hormones and encouraging surgery actually sorted out the autism, anxiety, depression and eating disorders their clients presented with?