I'm finally getting around to watching 's documentary, and it's great.
There's a lot of material in there by Dr David Bell, who we recently saw in that great Channel 4 interview.
I found thought-provoking - he's just described a dynamic in a way I've not seen anyone else do so clearly.
... the centrality of guilt - that any child who has real mental suffering, parents who are reasonably in touch, feel terrible! And they feel responsible.
And they can't be completely non-responsible either.
You know, you can't say to parents: "Oh no, no, no, it's nothing to do with you". But you can help families try to understand how things have got to this place.
So parents who feel very guilty, I think sometimes, if the child said... if all the difficulties get reprogrammed through the prism of gender - so now everything is gender. It's not depression, it's not autism, it's not trauma in the past that the family may feel guilty about. It's gender. And that's a completely separate thing.
That has a consequence of relieving the parents of guilt. So the parents may even join up and say: "yes, we support you in being trans" for unconscious reasons. Not because they're bad people, but for reasons they themselves don't understand.
But again, the services don't question that. And the parents who do question it, may have real concerns, are othered. So these tyrannical organisations, which do not see themselves as tyrannical, are to some extent unwittingly exploiting the vulnerability of parents.
I wonder how much this explains the "Munchausen Moms" thing we clearly see.