Most transgender youth I have met have been in the UK and unable to access HRT due to the waitlist being too long that by the time they are able to start HRT they are adults. So from those experiences, it gave me the impression that transgender youth are still an uncommon thing. In addition to the abuse, I faced when I attempted to come out the first time when 14 sort of reinforces the notion that it is uncommon (if it is actually more common this just inspires a great deal of frustration with the lies I was told then).

Additionally, out of an abundance of caution, I typically refer all transgender youth who reach out to me to professional non-profits (like mermaid UK for example). The stigmatization of transgender adults typically means that it is too legally risky for me to offer any assistance to transgender youth anyway. Hence, I don't spend a lot of time understanding / supporting the transgender youth population because my only recourse is to refer them to other resources. It is far easier to resist the temptation to offer assistance when you remain willfully ignorant on their situation.

If I were in a situation where it was allowable for me to offer that support to transgender youth, then absolutely would love to learn the intricacies of their situation and offer that assistance. At the same time though, there was a link on LGBdroptheT where even I am like "What the fuck did you expect?" with regard to a particular transgender person's actions. Depending on the circumstance, I might even expect a bonafide cisgender woman to be met with hostility if they behaved in the same manner as the person playing victimhood was in that thread. So... yeah, I do want to offer more in the way of help for transgender youth, but the current legal climate makes that a solid no.