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Children with ambiguous genitalia and genital injury may not have been able to have a normal sexual life, but trying to socialize them into a gender, as opposed to letting their true genders identities emerge, certainly made their lives much less "normal" and much more confusing and painful than it could have been. If you want a take away point from my previous post, it would be to allow children to figure things out for themselves in terms of gender identity. Parents may want to have things solved quickly, and to have gender identity issues treated in a medical way to fix the problem with medications and surgeries, but that may not be what is best for the child. It's tough stuff for well meaning parents, but fortunately they have healthy children, and hopefully as more understanding of gender identity emerges from neuroscience and endocrinology, the dogmas of the past will have less influence on how hard transgendered kids' lives need to be.
What about the dogmas of today? Do you have any opinion on some of the stuff I've posted in here - "conversion therapy" bans for trans kids, Dr Zucker's downfall, children being sterilized by the combination of puberty blockers + cross-sex hormones, pushes to get age limits lowered for surgeries as well as less referral notes from psychologists, efforts to legally remove children from parents who don't want to go along with affirmation therapy, etc?