Children are highly suggestible. The idea that “if you don’t affirm and transition dysphoric kids, they’ll kill themselves” is nothing but fearmongering. If it were true, there would be a plethora of dead trans kids from the days prior to the availability of medical transition.
I’m not surprised. I remember guides on Tumblr and other blogds that instructed dysphoric kids on what to say at their gender clinic in order to get HRT. ie. “say you’ve had dysphoria for as long as you remember,” and “say your dysphoria is making you suicidal.”
