This has been the most maddening thing about it; it’s just whole-hearted willful ignorance. NO ONE is doing gender conversions on kids. I guess if you want to make the argument that hormones are thrown around as teenagers, sure, but teenagers get on birth control, there are plenty of legitimate hormone therapies done already.
I’ve had decent progress with some more conservative, non-religious family members on the “indoctrination” shit by likening it to religion. No rules on what wild shit religion can do; promising you to an older man, severing social ties, and putting you in a situation where you don’t know you’re being abused. No crackdowns, no vehement marches, no violence over that. But an adult family and their near-adult child can’t make medical decisions with oversight from a medical professional? It’s absolute, willful ignorance at best.
Yeah, it got a dead senator’s sister appointed to replace him with absolutely no experience.