I have a very liberal co-worker and we get along (we never discuss politics) and she went on a rant about about trans rights and the ban on the transing of children in Texas and gave the usual screed about old white men and then she kept going on about how she couldn't believe anyone would be stupid enough to vote for Gov. Abbott. That was when I told her that I had voted for him and she was shocked and said she thought I was more progressive. I then asked her if a kid can tell you that he/she is the opposite sex and we have to take that as the gospel truth, then why can't a 10 year old tell me that he wants beer for him and his friends at his birthday party because he is mature enough to make such a decision. Heck, why have any restrictions for kids?
She told me it wasn't the same thing and walked away. I remember about 20 years ago someone told me that the end game for the lgbt activists (not the ones who truly want to be left alone of course) was pedophilia and I told him that he was being paranoid. Now, I fear that the day is common with the mainstream media will openly defend pedophilia once they can "normalize" a kid changing their sex.
On a side note to this topic I figure I'd share a detail about my life. Despite being American born and raised I did grow up with what was claimed to be a European sentiment regarding drinking. Probably beginning around the age of ten or so I would be offered some wine with dinner. I did not have a problem with this and didn't think wine was all that tasty at the time anyway. It did however demystify wine and taught me that different kinds of wine go with different kinds of meals.
As for the actual topic, you really have to be pretty damn stupid to think it is in any way a good idea to offer a child or even just a young person the possibility to permanently and destructively alter their body for no good end at all.
If a kid is confused about their own sexuality, you just have to let them sort it out like it has been done for the history of humanity. At best you talk with them and explain that it isn't all that unusual and that in time their confusion will ebb and they will sort out their fate.
Definitely agree with the alcohol part as a European. We were drunk the first time with people you've known for years. And you could rarely be black out drunk, cause you had to sleep at your own home (or at a friends), so adults would realize what you did. So when we're living on our own in university we already had experiences with alcohol. And hopefully learned from them.
I agree about demystifying alcohol. I’ve known some Europeans who explained that. I just used that example since that was the first thing that popped into my head at the time