@milohuissk
Two influential and experienced members of WPATH have outright said that there's an issue with social contagion among teen girls driven by social media:
"peer and social media influence do seem to play a role in encouraging the current, unprecedented spike in transgender identification by teen girls;"
And that puberty blockers are very problematic, one reason being that they stop males wanting to be women ever experiencing any normal Sexual development. They don't experience any pleasure at all.
https://abigailshrier.substack.com/p/why-marci-matters
But the bombshell – the point made to me in interviews with so many endocrinologists, but never by any providers of transgender medicine – was that “orgasmic naïveté” is real and it’s a problem.
In Bowers’ words:
When you block puberty, the problem is that a lot of the kids are orgasmically naive. So in other words, if you've never had an orgasm pre-surgery and then your puberty's blocked, it's very difficult to achieve that afterwards. And I think that I consider that a big problem, actually. It's kind of an overlooked problem that in our informed consent of children undergoing puberty blockers, we've in some respects overlooked that a little bit.
Bowers was / is (ongoing issues) Jazz Jennings's surgeon, a trans woman.
Given many detransitioned people describe very little gatekeeping or prior information to enable full informed consent, every person speaking out about this is absolutely right to do so. And we will keep doing so.