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.
I think a great argument to use with such people is to point out how we medically treat people who present other body dysmorphia issues.
If you talk with your friend about this again you might ask her to consider the treatment of anorexic children. Anorexia is just like gender dysmorphia in that the sufferer believes something about their own body which is just not true.
The standard of care for anorexia to assist the patient with developing realistic body images, nutrition education, improving self esteem and so forth. It most certainly is not to affirm the patient's faulty body image. And it absolutely is not to prescribe body alterations to 'affirm' the patient's dysmorphia, regardless of how badly they feel they need it.
The situation with 'gender affirming care' is exactly like agreeing with a rail thin anorexic girl that she is too fat, then going on to prescribe her diet drugs and liposuction surgery.
Yea I never understood that. Transgenderism is the only delusion that people affirm.