Anyone know a support group for parents of trans kids (not Mermaids)

[Nightmare2022]

I have a child that is identifying as non-binary. This child is also diagnosed as autistic and suffers from depression and anxiety. They have struggled all their life to maintain friendships. They watch a lot of on-line content from other young people about how being trans and changing their bodies, taking cross sex hormones, etc has made them so happy, etc. If we try to express any questioning view to our child we are called transphobic and it quickly descends into an argument. We have been supportive and the given name has been changed to a gender neutral name and we try to avoid the use of pronouns at all.

Any time I ask for support I get referred to Mermaids. I have looked at their site and they are pushing the same unquestioning attitude I want to challenge. Does anyone know if there are any support groups for parents that offer a more nuanced view than Mermaids?

The thing about Mermaids though is that 60% of their service users do not go on to transition.

Where is this stat from? Could it be that 60% of kids with Mermaids are still too young to physically transition - they haven't transitioned yet?

The term 'transition' includes social transition. Most adult male transitioners (well over 90%) retain their male genitalia, and there is no requirement for an adult to undergo any physical transition in order to obtain a GRC and become legally the opposite sex.

If you are using the term 'transition' to mean only physical (medical and surgical) transition, then I think it would be true to say that most transpeople have not transitioned, particularly since Stonewall's trans umbrella includes crossdressers and gender fluid people who have no intention of making a physical transition.

Mermaids themselves contradict disgusted’s claim:

”Mermaids say that the vast majority of young people they see will continue with their gender reassignment process whilst the GIDS outcomes appear to be the opposite.”