“Left untreated, gender dysphoria has any number of consequences, from self-harm to suicide.” ... There are no reliable studies showing this.

Yes, there are. It's clear that gender dysphoria kills kids every single year. It's like asking for peer-reviewed studies of parachutes.

It's Bari Weiss's rag. She makes a living provoking liberals.

I assume that the author is sincere, though that's more benefit of the doubt than I really ought to grant for a known liar and provocateur as Weiss. Still, granting it, I'm willing to believe that treating gender dysphoria is hard. I don't doubt that some people fail in their treatment, no matter what route they take.

I am not myself, and I know a great many people who are much happier after transitioning. I know of none who were harmed by it. That's anecdotal, but suffices for me to know that it's not an industry whose whistle needs blowing.

What's needed is continued work to understand what's going on with gender, and the best way to help people who believe gender identification is the source of their unhappiness. It won't be helped by provocateurs who have decided that everything I do is a bad thing and will use any deception, cherry-picking, or outright falsehood to prove it.