I have autism and I can spot kids like me getting wound up in these cultish / controlling spaces. They're quiet, awkward, and very naive. They're indoctrinated online and their identity gets so would up in this high control group they think they're trans. There isn't anything wrong with that per se - people have always believed in weird religions or political movements. The problem here is that the kids are now going onto hrt and getting body parts chopped off / changed. And whilst all teenagers will make mistakes (getting a bit too drunk a few times probably won't hurt you) these are doodles that can't be undone. They're going to have to live with this shit for the rest of their lives. I am so so mad with the medical community, I really hope they get their pants sued off when this blows over.

And I'm pretty positive there are creepy fucks using these groups to groom kids - not just into being trans but possibly into having sex with them. The way Aimee Challenor / Swales / Knight behave is pretty consistent with the way pedophiles groom kids (and adults so that they can have access to the kids). We will probably find out in like 20 years or something when these kids grown up and are able to come forward. They remind me of the Catholic priests - finding elevated positions in the community as leaders, surrounding themselves with dogma that makes them untouchable, fostering connections with vulnerable children (and sometimes also their families and friends - however the ideology does a lot of the leg work for them here), using ideology to cover-up or normalise their strange sexual behaviours (which would have otherwise set off a few red flags for people)...

I get mad about the stuff that's happening to lesbians and lgbs in general and a feel terrible for any kids that grows up thinking that this queer theory shit is real. But I think others have covered those points.