This article made me think of two things. One, the person in their 30s, typically but not always male, who, at the age of 19, went to a friend's place and a few of them had a hard night drinking and decided they wanted to go and get some food, and decided to drive, and on the way, crashed the car, killing either their passenger or the occupant(s) of another car and serving a prison sentence for culpable driving or drink-driving causing death, and who goes around to schools and talks to teenagers about the consequences of drink-driving. And two, the person, typically female, who experiences post-abortion grief, who wants to partake in sidewalk "counselling" of people entering abortion clinics or, worse, wants to see legislation banning abortion. In the former case, nobody with a semblance of humanity was unintentionally kill someone in a car accident and not live with guilt, whereas, particularly after a rape, a woman may not regret having an abortion. By all means, offer counselling by properly qualified people, but projecting your grief or regret onto another is not the answer.
What we have to remember is, not all people who de-transition do so because they didn't like the changes in their body. Okay, if a transman's father is bald and he has a brother who is also bald, he may likely go bald, too. In some cases, it may be due to loss of social networks. I am reminded of a man charged with murder who was in court for a committal hearing, whose mother, as he was led away on remand, yelled out, "Son, I love you!" I asked my mother what would drive her to do that, and she replied, "Put yourself in her position. If you had a son or daughter, who you loved very much, even if they committed a terrible crime, wouldn't you stand by them?" The sad thing is, I have seen parents who have stood by their children after they've committed horrific murders, yet others who have wiped their hands of their transgender kids, because they were transgender.
Yes, detransitioners deserve compassion, but what they do not deserve is a platform to push their agenda onto other people. For example, if laws allowed them to stand outside gender clinics and offer sidewalk counselling to people seeking to enter, I would say, "No, the staff are there to do their jobs legally."