@Britishkid7gk
Less than 1% of people detransition. Of that 1% a majority of them detransition due to not being accepted by those around them. Keira Bell is a one off case which has stupidly been allowed to impact on all transgender individuals in the UK. Her case doesn’t show that children can’t make their own decisions. She AS AN ADULT chose to have top surgery. It’s nothing to do with her age or doctors but more her feeding her doctors lies.
Part of the problem we have is that we have two different groups (at least) of trans people here.
Pre 2010-ish, we have always had a tiny number of people who insisted from very early on, usually around age 3, that they "were not" a boy, despite their sexed body, and "were" in fact a girl. This was more common in natal males. These people were vehement, expressed clear gender discomfort throughout their childhood, and were the group studied in the "only 1percent detransition" group.
The second, larger cohort, are mostly natal females. Parents will say no expression of gender discomfort was evident in childhood (though they may have not been especially "girly"; that isn't the same as persistent and consistent discomfort with ones gender). They announce they are trans at puberty (around 12 to 15 ish). These are the 4400 percent increased group, who simply didn't appear in gender identity services before 2010 ish. They have not been studied to see if their desistence rates are the same as the first group (I suspect far higher) and they are much more likely to be autistic or otherwise vulnerable.
The problem is that Mermaids began by representing that first group and has embraced the second group without acknowledging that the groups are different in many ways. They are applying the limited research of the first group to the second. However in reality the aetiology and trajectory of the two groups may be very different. They need to acknowledge this.
Transgender Trend's problem is that it acknowledges the second (much bigger) group, but doesn't accept that the first, tiny group have always existed and may be different and may indeed benefit from a pathway that is medical.
Then TRAs, a different group again, many if whom are late transitioning men who possibly have still different reasons for "wanting to change sex" have come into the mix insisting that rather than "I need to live as if I am a woman in society in order to feel at peace", as the first group above used to (mostly) say, the message has become "I literally am a woman if I say so and you must accept me in every space".
Basically we need to acknowledge that we are not dealing with one homogenous group here, and that not all trans people are the same. And that research done on one cohort cannot be applied to another. It's like saying that because research on huskies shows they are fine in the snow and need huge amounts of exercise, that therefore my Italian greyhound will be fine pulling a sledge - because both are dogs after all.