All I'm asking for is a little sensitivity, you don't need to agree with me, you don't need to understand, just leave me alone to answer questions where I can about our experiences.
You said at the start that in your DC's case Sadly it was too late for blockers, but testosterone was started.
So you haven't any personal experience of puberty blockers. However you brought them up in two further posts:
Children do not choose to make themselves infertile, if you are referring to blockers they merely pause the onset of puberty while allowing the child to socially transition and decide, with parental and medical support if this is truly the path they want to take.
And:
would I have started him on blockers if he were younger at the time, absolutely if that's what was right for HIM and we had all the latest research.
What you say about puberty blockers is inaccurate and I was very concerned that you were misinformed. I felt it was important that lurkers and other posters see the facts about these drugs. I therefore shared links & alternative views gently & quietly so that there is genuine alternative views, as you requested. I do not think you could read my remarks or links concerning these very nasty medications as any sort of attack, particularly given that i couldn't possibly be attacking you as your DC never took them.
However precisely because you have no personal experience, I think it's reasonable to be concerned when the parent of a trans child is promoting a false idea of the role of puberty blockers in this process. I don't doubt that you researched the treatment your DC had but you don't seem to have taken the same pains to look into puberty blockers. That's why I spoke of an agenda. Why else promote a treatment you know so little about?
Your remarks about suicide concern me too. There is no evidence that trans children are any more likely to kill themselves than their peers with MH issues. My DS1 spent a couple of years in his early teens struggling with suicidal ideation. It's not exclusive to trans children and surgery is not normally considered a proportionate response.
Any medical treatment of children that jeopardizes their fertility is weighed up very carefully. Doctors typically consider only life threatening conditions justify such a grave step. For this reason, suicide stats have been weaponised to promote medical transition, the 'better a live son than a dead daughter' approach.
However claims that unless a child or young person is medically transitioned they will kill themselves are unsupported by the evidence. The Tavistock reports only one suicide in a decade. The conduct of Mermaids in promoting false claims and very dodgy 'research' is shameful.