TokyoGhoul there seems to be a difference between the kids most likely to express their "trans identity" by superficial means of hair style, clothing, etc. and those who are being medicalised.
"An open letter to Dr Polly Carmichael from a former GIDS clinician"
2019 - Leeds
"I was also shocked by the complexity of referrals. I read many referrals of children who have been sexually abused and many children have witnessed and/or been subjected to domestic violence.
I also felt that was an overrepresentation of the young people who were living in poverty. I had a young person whose family were living within such extreme financial constraints that he considered it a treat to buy a can of pop. I also had another young person who was living in a very complex and unstable arrangement who arrived to sessions in a poor state of hygiene and said that there wasn’t money for hygiene products. How is it ethical to undertake a gender identity assessment with the view to a medical pathway when there are children and young people do not have their most basic needs met?
In terms of complexity I also had on my caseload several young people who declined to communicate verbally or communicated verbally to a very limited extent. I think that at GIDS verbal communication difficulties are often minimised as transmales being afraid to speak because they have a ‘feminine voice’ but in all of these cases I believe that there was something more complex than that going on. Again, it’s very difficult to undertake a gender identity assessment with a young person who struggles to communicate verbally, especially within the time constraints of the service."
https://medium.com/@kirstyentwistle/an-open-letter-to-dr-polly-carmichael-from-a-former-gids-clinician-53c541276b8d
Archived: https://archive.ph/k5vdd
The situation in Canada is the same, although there is also a high proportion of indigenous children being transitioned as they are over-represented in the Foster care system:
"Petition to the Government of Canada"
July 2020
There is enormous evidence suggesting psychologically and emotionally vulnerable children are identifying as transgender at enormously disproportionate rates;
Recent information suggests that Foster children are identifying as transgender at rates 15 to 20 times higher than children not in government care;
Full info:
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-2443
"“Gender therapy” doctor admits to advising kids to fake being suicidal to get transgender “treatments”
April 2019
"Dr. Wallace Wong…is facing calls for an inquiry into the conduct of his practice. On February 28…Wong spoke at an event hosted by Vancouver Public Library. In a tape of the event obtained by Canadian pro-family group Culture Guard, Wong is heard proudly describing the scope of his children-only “gender therapy” practice, noting that his youngest client is not yet three years old and that he has 501 orphans and foster kids in his local practice.
If true, this indicates Wong has likely used his relationship with the BC Ministry of Children and Family to diagnose more than 10 to 20 percent of local children in government care as needing his “gender therapy,” according to Culture Guard President Kari Simpson.
In Wong’s own words, his practice began in 2010 with just “four clients at the ministry” but in the course of nine years, there was such an enormous surge of need within that population that he now has “more than 500 kids, [with] just the Ministry alone…. So we can imagine the demand of service is soaring…. The phenomenon is happening a lot faster than – than we expected.”
Simpson expressed outrage at this “soaring” demand, claiming Wong was “gender-jacking” vulnerable children from the Ministry and “profiting” handsomely into the bargain.
Wong also had some startling advice for a parent seeking to get a child referred to his program. Although the questioner had not indicated any particular urgency, Wong explained that parents should exaggerate the severity of their child’s condition to their local health offices.
Wong said a suicide threat was an effective means of accomplishing this goal. While Wong framed the matter as the government’s fault and explained to his audience that it is “up to us as advocates” to change the situation, his message could not have been lost on anyone present.
“So what you need is, you know what? Pull a stunt. Suicide, every time, [then] they will give you what you need,” Wong said, adding that gender-dysphoric kids “learn that. They learn it very fast.”
Full article:
https://thebridgehead.ca/2019/04/22/gender-therapy-doctor-admits-to-advising-kids-to-fake-being-suicidal-to-get-transgender-treatments/
In the USA there is a gleaming temple to trans surgery in a Detroit ghetto where they are taking kids off the streets and churning out the icons of the most oppressed: black transwomen.
"Chris Rufo’s new exposé links “transgender empire” back to large-scale medical experiments in a Detroit ghetto"
"Chris explains how over the years, some of the wealthiest people in America have heavily funded the trans movement. But one of the most disturbing elements in Chris’s mini-film involves the medical experiments conducted in a Detroit ghetto, specifically at a place called “The Ruth Ellis Center.” This center is considered the epicenter for transgender “science,” . . ."
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-07-14-chris-rufos-expose-transgender-empire-medical-experiments.html
As irritating and high profile as the screaming, protesting, middle-class trans activist university students are, it is children living in poverty, vulnerable children, traumatised children, children in care, children with autism and learning difficulties and "proto-gay/lesbian" children the world over who are being medicalised. In Canada and the UK, the tax-payer stumps the bill. In the USA, billionaire philanthropists build and staff clinics and health insurance pays out vast sums per patient when they don't also fund the experimental treatments themselves.