Is what true? I simply pointed out in response to your question as to whether we actually knew trans people that yes, most of us do. I’m not sure what your comments about MH are meant to imply, other than perhaps my DD’s MH issues mean she is somehow not typical of, and thus not a ‘true’ trans person? I also fail to see where I have told anyone how to feel about trans people: I simply - and I REPEAT - pointed out that most of the PPs here absolutely DO know many trans individuals deeply and intimately and this is why we have an opinion on trans children.
In addition to my child, I know of at least half a dozen of her peers who have trans identified for a significant period between the age of 13-17; one of whom recently underwent a mastectomy at 19, a procedure that was offered after she found transgenderism at 16 after a 18m inpatient stay for bipolar and suicidal ideation/attempts. But perhaps you feel her experience, her mental illness, also disqualifies her for inclusion in your definition of ‘trans’ and thus my understanding of a child I have known since she was 10 days old, who lived a few doors away and was practically family, also doesn’t qualify me to comment? Nor the hours I’ve spent holding her mother in my arms as she sobs over the maiming & disfigurement that her beautiful, gifted, ND daughter has suffered because noone thought to hold back the surgical interventions and to continue to offer psychiatric support? Perhaps as they are both girls of ‘that’ peer group, they and their friends should all be discounted as they don’t count? Do we discount all girls of their generation then? Pray, do tell, as you seem to be the self-appointed arbiter of all things trans youth related.
In passing, I also now know several 50yo plus transwomen who have been incredibly supportive and compassionate in helping me navigate this with my child (and who, every single one of them, urged caution and discouraged medical and surgical transitioning until every and all avenues had been explored, btw. Why? Because even they know that you cannot change sex, that gender dysphoria is a mental illness and that despite the fact that their surgeries initially alleviated some of their discomfort and made their lives more liveable, transitioning did not actually make them happy, did not actually fix them and they have taken decades to accept that they may never actually feel comfortable in their bodies). But perhaps you don’t feel they should have an opinion on trans teens either? Are they also outliers?
So frankly, on the basis you have absolutely no experience whatsoever of supporting a child with gender confusion, have no experience of ND girls in ‘this peer group’ with mental health issues, I would say you have NO RIGHT WHATSOEVER to dictate to me as to whether I can have a position on this issue. I might possibly be moved to go so far as to say that, on balance, given you seem to know absolutely fuck all on a first hand basis, that you’re not qualified to have an opinion either, but that would reek of fascism. And I’d hate to be confused with a fascist.