t their sons’ lives will be improved by hormones or surgery. Yet their meetings are clandestine, and the sense of fear they live with frightens me: the spectre hanging over these proceedings is hyper-liberalism at its most intolerant.
In other words they fear, no doubt with justification, that they'll be branded as reactionary transphobes should they open up about their concerns. Meanwhile their sons are encouraged to proceed down a path of irreversible medical intervention that they may very well come to regret, when what they really need is some understanding, and perhaps some professional help with proceeding through puberty and accepting themselves as boys.
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