So are they trying to say that a parent allowing their child to be trans is a form of child abuse? What should be parent do instead? Kind of hard to force a kid to stop being who they feel they are? Believe me, lots of parents try, and that is far more abusive than being supportive of a child during a difficult time in their lives.
I had a friend who grew up in a large mormon family. They were hyper-religious and hyper-strict. She didn't feel the "spirit" the way the rest of them did, and she "rebelled" by hanging out with me and my friends later than her curfew during the summer (wasn't hard, her curfew was like 8 pm), and playing D&D and occasionally drinking a beer some kid would steel from his dad. Oh no! She has a demon and needs an exorcism!! Stat!! She didn't really get into any trouble, but she did things her parents didn't like. They tried to force her to conform. They put stricter rules, read her journal regularly, followed her around, vetted her friends. In the end she kind of snapped under all the pressure, and ended up pregnant at 17 from an abusive boyfriend who was frighteningly similar to her dad (emotionally abusive, not physically, at least not at first). She then snuck away and got an abortion. Then all hell broke loose for her at home, as you can imagine. Locked in the house, couldn't go anywhere without parental supervision, no unapproved friends at all, etc. They started home-schooling her. It was hell. The manipulation and emotional toll was on another level, all in the name of "love" and trying to bring her back to the church, because everyone knows the best way to get people to believe is to lock them up and take away all their choices. After all isn't that what this life is about? No freedom of choice? Ugh. She was messed up for a long time.
But you know what? That isn't "abuse". It is just a protective parent taking care of their wayward child. They have to be strict because she is a wild child. She needs to be protected from herself, right? What great loving parents, who eventually disowned her because she wouldn't conform.
But of course, supporting your trans child and helping them through a difficult time, instead of doing the same as above to force them to "pray the gay away" is abuse. Right?
Good hell our society is so ****ed up.