10 year old are indoctrinated into taking boner pills. Actually drugs like Lupron that are used to castrate pedophiles in certain circumstances.
Dude be serious. This isn't some abstract issue for me.
I'm going to ask you this. If you had a child, let's say 14 years old, and for a time now they seemed distant and unhappy. You've tried to connect, tried to figure out what's going on, tried to find ways to brighten their day. Eventually your spouse brings you a letter your child has written to them. In it your child tells your spouse that they are transgender. They inform your spouse of their preferred name and gender pronouns. They express how hard it was to write the letter and how scared they were to give it to them but that this is something that they needed to do. You spouse tells you that your child came to them because they felt that they would be more accepting but they didn't want to tell you right now because they were worried that you wouldn't be able to accept them. Your spouse has since talked to your child and convinced them to let your spouse share the letter with you.
What do you do?
What if you reject it and say it's a phase, but more than a year later your child is seemingly less happy and more withdrawn because they insist that they are transgender but you will not acknowledge them for who they are?
Now it's two years later and it's been two weeks since you've heard from your kid because they ran away again and are staying with friends of theirs who accept them for who they are. Do you continue to tell them that you're not going to play pretend with them about their gender?
Now your child is 18, hasn't finished school because they've bounced around from house to house, sometimes with other family, sometimes running away to be with their friends who you don't allow them to have contact with. They've had to make their way in the world without the love and support of their parents. Now that they aren't legally bound to you they walk out of your life and never make contact with you again.
Or... What if when you read the letter you go to your child and tell them that you love them, and will always love them no matter what? You tell them that you're confused and this is hard for you, but you want to support them and help them make the best possible decisions for their life.
Eventually you go to a specialist doctor who provides treatment. The doctor requires that all legal guardians be at the initial appointment. So you're there and the doctor talks about possible options and that it's also possible that no medical intervention will take place. They explain each treatment option in detail. They explain side effects and permanence vs reversibility. Then they talk to the patient alone after which you are brought back in. The treatments that your child was inclined towards are discussed. Surgery was never an option because no one does that for a patient under 18. The options in front of you are some hormones and some blockers. You express your concern that you want whatever it is to not be permanent and fully reversible. They drop some options and settle on some of the most mild treatments.
Is that the horror show that you thought it was? Because that's real. You're talking about nightmares that are thought up in some fundamentalists fever dreams.
BTW I picked the second path and I'm happy that I did.