What children don’t need

o estimated that 1-2% of the population is transgender". The implication, in the context, is that 1-2% of children are trans. Nonsense, of course. But that's how it's framed.

Encouraging the fantasy that children can somehow be born in the wrong body – and then on to puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, surgical mutilation – is precisely what children don't need. It is, in fact, conversion therapy – transing away the gay. What they do in Iran.