If a physically healthy child with an eating disorder says they're too fat or too thin, what do you say? "No you're not, you're perfect as you are." If a physically healthy child with gender dysphoria says they're the opposite sex, what do you say?
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And then they go to their room, continuing to be tormented by dysphoria, hate their body, cry themselves to sleep and never talk to you about it again because you did absolutely nothing to help them. You can't just say, get over it and feel better. Lol
Nobody is saying to just get over it. Just because a parent doesn't blindly accept that their son is actually their daughter (or vice versa) doesn't mean they'll do "absolutely nothing" to help.
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