OK so the last trans person I knew personally went the following.
Straight girl (dated my best friend for years before breaking up)
Went to University
2nd year of university after a failed relationship there decided she was a lesbian
End of university they'd decided they were actually a a guy trapped in a girls body and were Trans
2 years on fully transitioned to being a man, complete with doing some stereotypical "I'm a man" things like growing a moustache and riding and buying a motorbike.
1 year later stopped identifying as a man and shaved off the moustache now identifying as a non binary individual.
1 year later apparently they're very messed up and now wish they never went away from being a woman.
And this was some-one who wasn't the most feminine but wasn't full on tomboy either. If I had to take a guess it's the crowd she fell in with at Uni and her own insecurities mixing as funnily enough 5 of her friends group (of7 including her at uni) all came out as lesbian in the same year then all decided the year after they were actually trans.
OK, cool story. Statistical fact remains that the vast majority do not regret transitioning.
Nah dudes got a point Dr Kenneth J. Zucker research supported the idea of a cautious approach and part of his downfall (he was a former leading researcher who helped pioneer much of gender affirming care) was suggesting people were rushing to conclusions and medicating first rather than asking questions and was worried people were trying to act under the belief of their actions were good and right and rushing straight ahead based on those beliefs rather than stopping and doing the actually good thing for the patient in the long run and taking a little more time to check over things.
Uhrm, no, Kenneth Zucker did not merely encourage "caution". Caution is good. Kenneth Zucker approached all instances from a starting point of preventing the child being trans.
Oh and before we get the "No-one has been jumping the gun" reply.
Of course some medical practitioners "jump the gun", as they do with literally any procedure or care process. This is why gender affirmation is best done with safeguards, check-ins, potentially counselling or therapist involvement. Something that people like Zucker (and tstorm) oppose, as they pursue straightforward denial.
Oh and didn't Labour recently block the use of puberty blockers for the foreseeable future?
Uhrm, yes, so? Labour's position on this is shite. And puberty blockers are largely reversible-- more so than, for example, puberty itself. Forcing someone unsure to go through puberty (by denying access to blockers) is the
less cautious approach, because it forces the kid to undergo the more permanent physical change of puberty.