“Efforts to treat gender dysphoria among minors should be utilized with mental health counseling and compassionate care, not with hormone blockers and "mutilating surgeries" that can potentially have long-term and irreversible ramifications
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“the vast majority of minors who are diagnosed with gender dysphoria will move beyond it if they are provided with competent, compassionate counseling.
“gender transition surgeries and the providing of hormones for minors "barbaric."
“children being treated with hormone blockers and other drugs will be transitioned off instead of being forced to quit cold turkey
“What you don't want to do is carry out treatments… we refer to them as sex-rejecting procedures, where you're using castrating chemicals or cross-sex hormones or mutilating surgeries to permanently change their bodies and give them potentially life-long complications that can happen,
“The term from the left is gender-affirming care. I can tell you that mutilating surgeries and castrating chemicals affirm nothing. Absolutely not. They are harmful.
“Gender dysphoria is certainly a real condition. There are some children who have gender dysphoria, some minors who have that. Now, in the past, it's been an incredibly small percentage. And what we've seen is this has really turned into a social contagion. In other words, where there's so many more kids being diagnosed with gender dysphoria, that's not really explained by simple epidemiology.
“gender dysphoria has involved a very small percentage of adult males, and it is a "true diagnosis" that has been hijacked for ideological purposes.
“the science doesn't support "sex-rejecting" procedures on children