In terms of conversion therapy and children, Transgender Trend have a very interesting article contrasting the evidenced, child centred factual approach of the interim report from the Cass Review contrasted with the political activist sloganeering from Stonewall (and others). It's long and well worth a read:
Extract
Stonewall places children within a wide umbrella group of sexual and gender identities, frames ‘legitimate’ treatment as that which supports children “to be themselves” and prioritises the protection of a medical transition pathway for children, falsely claiming that hormone treatments are “fully reversible.” Stonewall campaigns from this politicised position.
The basis of Stonewall’s political campaigning is not consistent with the facts and evidence in the Cass interim report:
Direct quotes from Cass:
2.18. The disagreement and polarisation is heightened when potentially irreversible treatments are given to children and young people, when the evidence base underlying the treatments is inconclusive, and when there is uncertainty about whether, for any particular child or young person, medical intervention is the best way of resolving gender-related distress.
3.32. A closely linked concern is the unknown impacts on development, maturation and cognition if a child or young person is not exposed to the physical, psychological, physiological, neurochemical and sexual changes that accompany adolescent hormone surges. It is known that adolescence is a period of significant changes in brain structure, function and connectivity
www.transgendertrend.com/political-slogans-clinical-evidence-stonewall-cass/