https://stream.org/australian-boy-wanted-to-be-a-girl-but-changed-his-mind/

I'm not sure what makes me more sad, what happened to the boy or the comments on that site.

I'm not sure I follow... I just did a quick read and he changed his mind. It is correctable for the most part. Mis-diagnosed or no,it was obviously bad enough to convince his own family and the doctors, and the school faculty. I can't say one way or the other not having first hand knowledge, but making "all encompassing" statements that kids can't be expected to know about things because they're kids. I still hold tight to my convictions from when I was 8, 10, what have you... never waived. Here I am an adult of 37 years and still steadfast... by saying kids don't know and you can't trust their parents to confirm,  you set things up for "gate keeping". Kids get suicidal and their rate of follow-through is far greater than adults... transition may save more than it hurts. Just a thought.

The issue here is that while the kid was diagnosed and put on blockers, as per the Aus protocol, his mother decided to give him the estrogen she'd had prescribed for her self. So now he has breasts that he doesn't want, that apparently no surgeon in Aus will remove. The mother then goes on to blame the medical profession, not her own actions.

The move to London smells like an attempt by the mother to avoid legal fallout from her actions. The claim that South Korea was the only place he could get a mastectomy is also bogus.

Sorry, Harley, I probably wasn't clear. I felt bad for the boy that he had to deal with the dysphoria a lot of us on this site have felt, but I felt good that he realized a gender change wasn't right for him before he did anything irreversible.

The comments box on that site, on the other hand, I thought had a lot of comments which were really depressing to read. For example, this: "Two lessons. In gender dysphoria the instigator is always the mother. These days you can find a medical practitioner to do just about anything." Huh?

Kelly_Aus: I agree with you.