I expect kids to be given a chance to go through puperty before being encouraged to make permanent changes to their bodies. Teemagers in general are still finding themselves and usually have opinions differrent from those they will have when grown up.
> Do you think there's a significant rate of false positives for trans/bi/gay? I haven't seen evidence of that being the case.
Perhaps that's because you have shielded yourself from it. This is exactly the problem with (social media) bubbles, both ones created urself with excessive blocklists and more systematic manipulation of what can be shared.
Nobody's doing permanent changes to kids that haven't gone through the age of puberty. Sometimes blockers are used to delay the effect of puberty itself, but those are the opposite of a permanent change.
And as far as my question goes, that just pushes the it down the line by a few years.
> Perhaps that's because you have shielded yourself from it. This is exactly the problem with (social media) bubbles
Well I've never seen someone try to put together even a couple detailed anecdotal examples either. And there are a lot of flat out lies that get spread and even get on the news so I'm not going to accept a vague claim of "it happens".
What diversities are you talking about here?
For things like autism and ADHD I see very few people suggesting that self-diagnosis is reliable.
For gender and sexuality, there isn't a test for that, what do you expect people to do? From there, being cis or trans, straight or gay is a direct consequence of gender+body or sexuality+body. Do you think there's a significant rate of false positives for trans/bi/gay? I haven't seen evidence of that being the case.
Do you have something else in mind?