Firstly, skateboarding, certain haircuts and styles of clothing are trendy or cool, sex changes are not. I remember an advertisement from 1984 in Australia, where a kid said, "I really wanted a skateboard, but no one would buy it for me. I asked my father, "No, Son, I am not going to buy you a skateboard." So I asked my mother, "Ask your father." Then I discovered aluminum can recycling. Comalco give you 60 cents a kilo for them, so now I can buy anything I want."

I would rather that parents take their kids to the gender clinic and let them be assessed by doctors who know what they're doing than be taken to an old school psychiatrist with steel rimmed spectacles and a beard who says, "Right, this thinking that you are the opposite sex has got to stop!" That is what teaches kids to mask and that is harmful to their mental health. A seemingly stereotypical boy who played football and other things who suddenly tells his parents that he is a girl is typically someone who has been masking.

And, one old saying that is equally wrong is that so and so "turned gay". I remember seeing funeral notices in the late 1990s, that would say something like, "Smith, John, Dearly loved Father of Jennifer, Anthony and Sally and Dearly loved Partner of Robert Brown. Dearly loved friend of Patricia." What can be inferred from this is that at the time homosexuality was illegal or a psychiatrist would have said, "Find a good woman, have a good sex life and it will disappear." So, John Smith met and later married Patricia, and he had three children with her. At some point, John could no longer suppress it and he confessed to Patricia that he was gay. The marriage ended and he met Rob Brown, but remained friends with Patricia.