I am not opposed to people's rights to ask questions. Here in my native Australia, there is a politician who gave an excellent rebuttal of a far-right wing politician's response to COVID19 vaccine mandates. The far-right wing politician, Hanson, claimed that it was discrimination and segregation to not allow people without vaccines to enter certain places.

This same right-wing politician made the preposterous statement that parents of transgender kids were abusing them and that they were behind it because they wanted a child of the opposite sex to what they were given or that they took a few traits and assumed they had a transgender child. I remember, when I was four, wanting to emulate a character on TV and mother said that I couldn't. At four, I did not know anything of the difference between male and female genitalia. Small children, today, however, are more aware of it.

Whilst I understand concerns about puberty blockers, I say, it is distressing for a child to develop the secondary characteristics of the sex they were assigned at birth, if it's what they don't want. I do, however, believe that a person has to be able to understand the implications of their choices.

I have long had a desire to transition, and I plan to start doing so very soon. My motivation is that I was socially conditioned to be someone I'm not.

What people need to remember, though, is, sometimes, a person waits until middle age to transition not because it was something that suddenly came up, but because their parents disapproved and they had to wait until their parents died to be able to live as their true selves.