I'm sure they'd be making just as much money if they were "curing" the desire to transition as they are facilitating it, don't you?
No, not really.
If you have a profit-driven medial industry, then the best way for them to make money isn't actually to cure people, but to sell products and manage life long conditions.
So with transition you are opening up all sorts of lucrative beauty / cosmetic surgery opportunities for the plastic surgery industry - procedures that were previously considered just for vanity when done to a woman, but if done to a man because he has dysphoria, now given a level of respectability - they're to help him transition, to manage his dysphoria, not just for vanity.
And it's not just about sex change surgery - indeed most transwomen opt not to chop their dicks off. It's about stuff like boob jobs, facial feminisation surgery, and surgery, potentially, on any part of the human body that implies sexual characteristics, potentially.
This is a large and lucrative market, potentially. Just like any plastic surgery for looks - when are they finished? Well, never! For those with the money, a life time of surgical procedures awaits. Then there's also the maintenance of existing surgeries - a lot can go wrong with a neo-vagina for example, as it's essentially a wound you need to keep open.
Then, there are the careers that will be founded on this. There's no glory in using counselling to help people manage a difficult time in their life - that's what counselling is for already.
But surgeons developing new techniques and any number of types of academics writing papers, could significantly boost their careers by being at the forefront of this new field.
It's a gift to plastic surgeons - loads of people offering up their bodies to be experimented on.
Then there's all the pills they can sell - hormones, puberty blockers etc etc. And people are so keen to take this stuff, they're not even demanding clinical trials! Puberty blockers were never designed to be given to trans kids, and there have been no large trials on them. They're being used off label.
However - anyone who's spent some time looking at this can see the law suits are on the horizon. The voices of detransistors are being suppressed at the moment, but they will get too numerous to ignore. Once they start organising, many of the people making money and kudos from it now may come to regret their involvement.
I can't believe the trans community aren't more worried about this. What happened to healthy cynicism about profit-driven healthcare?
The level of wilful naivety is depressing, and what makes it even more concerning is that it's vulnerable people who are getting caught up in this and will have to live with the life changing consequences of transition.
Kids with depression, anorexia and autism are much more likely to be trans. Kids who are gay and/or generally gender-non-conforming in a straight world are being encouraged to transition rather than to navigate puberty and to be comfortable with themselves.
That an ideology that encourages healthy teenagers to chop off bits of their bodies and take very strong unlicensed drugs is being promoted in schools and in the media is absolutely a scandal in the making.
We will look back at this as a terrible mistake.