Read the previous answers, malificent. Kids who are gay are not being told something about them are intrinsically wrong, they are being affirmed in who they are. Telling kids they must be born in the wrong body is just the complete opposite to this, and I really struggle to see how this is not glaringly obvious. Kids are being told their body is wrong. They are being told an intrinsic part of them should be changed. They are being fed dangerous stereotypes about what boys and girls should like and do, then told that if they don't match those stereotypes they should begin on a course of treatment which will affect their brain cells, their fertility, and so many more side effects we don't even know about yet. It is a scandal in the making, an utter abhorrence, that small children are being fed the lie that their bodies - their amazing, individual bodies - can be somehow wrong. There are websites selling packers for 5 year old girls identifying as boys. This is so creepy and off balance it seems like dystopian literature.
Comparisons to anorexia are interesting, too. Many anorexic teens say that they feel suicidal, and if they are forced to eat they will take their own lives. This is heartbreaking, but health professionals don't then turn around and say that we must allow these children to starve themselves, to form their bodies into he shape they feel most comfortable in, in order to prevent this. We don't weaponise suicide for anorexic people, because we know that would be abhorrent. We know affirming them in their beliefs about their bodies would be wrong. Yet with gender non conforming children, we say that oh, they might commit suicide, therefore let them go on these life altering drugs. We affirm them in the belief that their body is, indeed, wrong.
Why are we not teaching children to celebrate who they are, as whole people? To celebrate their bodies with all their flaws? And why are we as a society perpetuating all these stereotypes which send children into such great discomfort about who they really are? Why can't all children play with any toy and love any colour and do any activity they want to do?
Instead of embracing freedom and delight in who they are, our society is narrowing these kids in, putting them in firmly labelled pink and blue boxes, and when they struggle to climb out of them we tell them it's fine, they can be in the other one. They just need to put a dress on and change their pronouns.
Let's break down the boxes instead, and allow children to be children.
I know that gender dysphoria exists and is utterly crippling. I know that some people feel more comfortable in the world expressing themselves in gender norms of the other sex. But the way we are pushing children into this - increasingly - when they express childish ideas, is nothing short of hideous.
In compete agreement, OP.