I’m with you on your take. I respect that it is difficult to have a child caught up in the gender trend but there are a lot of red and yellow flags in this mom’s write-up. Despite the title, the mom doesn’t seem to have learned all that much. This is not the perspective of someone who wants to understand and empathize with her child or who was curious about the underlying pain the child was undergoing that caused her to latch on to a gender solution. Somehow I don’t think if her daughter ended up desisting and coming out as a butch lesbian or a particularly masculine straight girl, she would have considered that a success.

My daughter is finally returning to her authentic self — A beautiful, artsy, kind, and loving daughter.

It’s hard to pin down exactly what irks me here, and it’s not just this sentence, but this sentence in the context of the rest of the article. It seems that she’s defining the girl’s “authentic self” as an obedient daughter.