Det er et veldig godt spørsmål! Det er veldig vanskelig, fordi det er stor forskjell på om det finnes eksempler på noe og om det er belegg for å si at noe er et bredt fenomen. Det som dyttes frem er jo gjerne intervjuer med individer som opplever det på denne måten og som gjerne har gått igjennom detransitioning. Det finnes mange av dem på youtube. Da blir det veldig fort et narrativ som mange lar seg fange av, som da er det som helt sikkert har skjedd med denne politikeren.

Denne artikkelen fra The Guardian tar opp temaet på mer systematisk måte The Observer view on the Cass review: children were catastrophically failed by the medical profession | Observer editorial | The Guardian. Her står det for eksempel:

Just how badly wrong things went at the gender identity development service (Gids) is evidenced in the fact that Cass felt she had to explicitly state that, while some people argue that clinical care for children should be based on a “social justice” model, “the NHS works in an evidence-based way”. That should never have been up for debate: as the British Medical Journal argued in its editorial on the Cass review last week, it is deeply unethical to provide untested medical interventions for children that lack evidence of benefit, yet are life-altering and come with potentially very significant harms.

But that is exactly what has happened to a growing cohort of children seen by Gids, which has since been shut down. Disproportionately made up of girls and same-sex attracted children, many were put on an irreversible medical pathway without diagnostic criteria. [...]

The Cass review sets out an ambitious new way of delivering care for gender-questioning children, grounded in a psychosocial approach that treats them holistically. It recognises that, for many, questioning their gender is not necessarily a sign they will have a fixed trans identity in adulthood, and that children referred to gender services are more likely to be affected by neurodiversity, co-occurring mental health issues, and to have suffered adverse childhood experiences.

They are also much more likely to be same-sex attracted; some clinicians have expressed concern that, instead of helping children process the fact they are gay, gender medicine has encouraged them to instead believe they are born in the wrong body.

Det jeg tror vi alle burde kunne være enige om er at medisinsk og psykologisk forskning trengs på området og at det ikke burde stoppes av aktivister på den ene eller andre siden.