Oh dear. So very dramatic.
I'm taking about something you clearly haven't experienced: gender dysphoria.
I have. Still do.
Going through the wrong puberty
There's no such thing as a "wrong" puberty, because there's no such thing as a "right" puberty. There's only puberty. Children on hormones don't go through the other sex's puberty. Girls don't grow balls and a penis. Boys don't grow a vagina and a uterus. They all go through the one and only puberty they can go through: their own sex's, just a distorted version of it.
It is immeasurably cruel to deny these kids the appropriate counselling to help them cope with this
Actually, I agree, but only because the "appropriate counselling" is the one that tells them that this is the one and only body they have, and that changing sex is impossible. Telling them that if they take immensely dangerous drugs, they will be the other sex, is indeed "immeasurably cruel".
Puberty blockers have been used by cis children for a long time (they still are) to prevent early puberty.
Yes, with horrible medical side-effects. Funny how TRAs never mention those side-effects when advocating giving them to "trans kids".
A very small number of trans children are suitable for them, and have been helped by them.
Please cite your source for this claim, because so far all studies I'm aware of have shown the contrary.
Deterioration of mental health. There is widespread depression, anxiety, use of prescription medications, distress, school refusal, self-harm, hospitalisations and suicides among trans children.
True but correlation isn't causation. Please cite your source showing that all those things are caused by the gender dysphoria. Because the way I see it, for most current-day "trans kids", the gender dysphoria is simply another symptom of an underlying distress, and will disappear when that distress is treated.
The demonisation of trans children, who are seen as deserving violence (especially sexual violence) at school. Statistics show all trans children are targeted within schools and suffer greatly - many just leave without doing exams, because it's so awful.
Statistics, heh? Got some handy to prove this claim?
Far more adult surgeries. Forcing trans boys to develop breasts they don't want, just means they'll have top surgery later. It also forces them to wear binders.
I don't think you understand how this works. Little girls using puberty blockers don't develop breasts as long as they take the puberty blockers. Once they stop taking them, their puberty resumes, and those breasts develop, whether they take testosterone or not. So if they do indeed grow to not want those breasts later on (which is a massive "if"), they will have to have the surgery, even if they've been drugged up since they were 8.
Yes, some trans kids change their minds - but most of that's because of the.immense social pressure and ceaseless harassment trans people face.
Funny: that's not what they themselves say. I don't think the woman who sued the surgeon who operated on her did it because of social pressure and harrassment. She specifically did it because she had never been able to properly consent to having her breasts removed, and she's now distressed by the lack of them for the rest of her life.
Trans adult surgeries have a very low regret rate,
You don't know that. Nobody knows that, because there's no study whatsoever on the matter.
and many trans men have babies.
See what I told you about there being only one puberty anyone can go through? You can put a little girl on puberty blockers and then on testosterone, and she'll still go through some mangled version of the female puberty, because that's the only one she can go through.
All the young trans adults I know have been through things no child should - denial of care, violence, harassment and (in all cases bar two, one of them my own son) getting kicked out by their families. They are picking up the pieces of their lives, starting again, forming relationships and getting jobs. Many have PTSD after their experiences. It has stopped precisely none of them being trans.
You're making it sound like they went through those horrible things because they are trans. Let me posit another theory: they went through those horrible things because many things in their lives were wrong, and the distress made them believe they were trans. Ie. trans is a consequence of the root of their problem, not the cause. And you can't prove me wrong.
Breaking children at a young age is inexcusable.
AGREED! No child should be told that their body is wrong. No child should be told that they have to submit to medical procedures in order to make their body right. No child should be lied to that their body can become anything other than what it will inevitably become. No child should be given medical treatments with incredibly heavy, even life-shortening consequences, for false reasons. It is indeed inexcusable.
I hope terfs know that all their campaigning has led to this: young trans men now contemplating the quickest, cheapest way to get surgery they wouldn't otherwise have needed.
Oh no no no. The only ones responsible for that are the TRAs who tell these young women that their happiness depends on cutting their breasts off, and who campaign to prevent anyone from giving proper psychological support to these young women so they can reconcile themselves with their only, healthy body.
No one would be trans unless it meant everything to them. Their lives are too hard.
"No one would be depressed unless it meant everything to them."
"No one would be anorexic unless it meant everything to them."
"No one would be autistic unless it meant everything to them."
"No one would be disabled unless it meant everything to them."
See how stupid that sounds? Just because something is hard, doesn't mean it must be automatically supported and encouraged.
Harassment, violence - not to mention online forums dedicated to discussing their bodies, lives and appearance. Formulating paranoid conspiracy theories about them. Declaring them evil fetishists. Could you cope with that?
Then... Don't make them go through it? Give them proper psychological help so they learn to accept the one and only body they will ever have? Problem solved!