You have an excellent point, because no.....my mind is made up on this issue where it affects children.
Any chance those vids and stats are going to shift your view?
I'll admit that you're partly right about the blocker drugs, they're not FDA approved for TRANS therapy reasons, but they ARE approved for other uses.
I'll admit that yes, the concerns of medical personnel and some people are valid because there isn't any science to prove what might happen to kids put on blockers, only because this is the first generation to have kids on blockers and until they're grown, we won't know what affects, if there are any, there might be. Which is why the normal doctor standard of care is to inform the patient and parents of the risks. It says a lot though that even knowing the risks, patients agree to it - because patient agreement is essential - vs not taking injections at all. We don't even know if the possible side effects - diabetes, heart conditions, etc - will be because of the blockers or natural occurring issues, until it happens. That the drugs used to block puberty ARE safely used to treat other conditions:
precocious puberty (early onset of puberty),
prostate cancer, breast cancer, endometriosis and uterine fibroids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty_blocker
Do you know what goes IN to the decision to be put on blockers? How long it takes to get approval, how many doctors you need to see to GET to the final permissions for someone to write the script for them? What age they start at? That's all important information anyone who is against blockers really needs to look at.
As for the videos...
I haven't watched the full length one, but I HAVE seen videos and stories about Walter before; I have no comment other than he's a dramawhore who can't get enough attention and if he hadn't thought he was trans (which he wasn't) and gone through what he did, he would have found something else to make himself super special.
Dr. Soh, after looking at the video you posted, and watching others, plus reading up on her, has her opinion but I think that her anger over papers being 'removed' is very much WTF, since papers are always peer reviewed and removed all the time. Her main argument is that gender and sexual status are binary and in a way I can see her point, if I want to limit myself to the narrow view of it. However I know personally that gender is more broad spectrum than just male/female, that's why the more common theory of Gender being "what you are" is becoming a 'thing' and why it's separate from sex.
She also brought up trans people in sports as her main talking point in the first video you posted, specifying MMA as it's her favorite sport. Without her naming specific cases you can't really argue for or against her opinion. However, there is a case of a trans athlete that made news that is interesting, IMO, because it totally disproves Dr. Soh's theory.
Andraya Yearwood is a student athlete in Connecticut Track and Field.
https://runningmagazine.ca/the-scen...nner-facing-scrutiny-for-competing-as-a-girl/
So those against her say that she shouldn't run because, being born male, it gives her an advantage.
Except... it doesn't.
If you go here
https://www.athletic.net/TrackAndField/Athlete.aspx?AID=11884190 and check her bio (highlight the page to see the 'hidden' info), though she does come first a lot, it doesn't always happen. If you look from when she started in 2017, to this year, she went from low placings and even a DNF to improvements, just like any athlete. This to me proves that even though trans, TRAINING plays a huge factor into how someone excels in a sport.
But as you said, since nothing will change your mind, at least there's info out there to disprove your bias and fear - yes, fear - of trans kids.
In the end though, saying this boy is a girl, and siding with the father and his views, only proves you're good with seeing this kid in harm's way, if not wanting to see them die, since he's already tried suicide. And yes, I know, "that's not what you're saying", except to him, it is, and it's people like you who push trans kids TO that.
.... so much for not posting a lot to rebuttal... :|