>>2949123
Keeping it somewhat concise, there are several pathologies driving individuals towards transgenderism. Sometimes you'll find people othering to cope with trauma, indulging in autogynophilia, or trying to use gender ideology to explain why their asperger's asses don't fit in with normal people. Sometimes that trauma can be from sexual abuse, combat experience, or simply being an autistic chick who hit puberty and couldn't cope with the physical and social changes. Autogynophilia can stem from different influences, pornography rabbit holes being one non-trivial risk factor and childhood abuse another. The autistic gender ideology case highlights the danger of the social contagion aspect: weird kids hyperfixating on one rigid explanation for why they're weird and finding social reinforcement and acceptance in a niche community. Various mental illnesses, drugs, etc. can also factor into what's often a very complex tangle of issues troubling an individual. It's almost never a simple matter of "born in the wrong body" and anyone who denies this is either ill-informed or dishonest.
The extreme pornography and chatroom grooming risk factors towards the development of transgenderism are good arguments for Anon not putting internet in his kid's room.
On the institutional side there's a lot of money in going along with it and a lot of expensive legal threats if you don't. Online transgender groups will give you instructions for scaring the hospital staff into putting you on exogenous hormones immediately instead of doing traditional due diligence, which is now often derided as "conversion therapy" under the insane assertion that asking a kid why he feels like he should grow tits and chop off his dick is somehow more abusive than wrecking his hormonal profile and chopping off his dick without question. Current industry "best practices" are more the result of activist lawfare than scientific consensus and are not consistent with the standards for parallel conditions.