Unfortunately, there does appear to be a number of young AFAB individuals who have detransitioned as a result of various issues, including incorrect diagnoses, incorrect self-diagnoses, improper encouragement or peer pressure, etc. There are some on this site, even, who have gone through this and all in fairly recent years 5-10 years, usually in the last 5. I tend toward prudence: if there is some sort of problem (predominantly affecting younger AFAB apparently) then it should be acknowledged and further study needs to be done to ascertain exactly what is causing it. It does us - as FTM and the trans community at large - no favours to fail to address it.
Of course, our ideological enemies will want to use this as a means to attack transition as a treatment. It would be best if we could identify the fact that there is a schism in the community described as between those seeking freer social expression (and not necessarily suffering GD) and those seeking medical treatment (I could go further on this because I know what is generally happening here and why - but for now I leave it at that), and acknowledge that young people are potentially at risk of being misdiagnosed at the moment, and acknowledge that the risk is exacerbated by seeking to fast-track and loosen the gatekeeping on transition for youngsters that will include operations and long term HRT. Currently there are moves in place to fast-track younger people to transition as well as to introduce the idea of trans and transition to them in school at ages as young as 5-6 years old. If we have a clear incidence of people being misdiagnosed or confused in sufficient numbers, it makes sense that we address this matter ASAP and have the discussions that are needed as to how best this is to be done without increasing the numbers of young people mistakenly transitioning. The hike in numbers could well be due to existing cases coming forward, but I myself have seen and spoken with more than just a few AFABs who mistakenly chose this path due to suggestion, peer pressure, and histories of abuse and sexual abuse. There is something going on here and a failure of the system to protect these people from incorrect diagnosis. It seems likely that young females and AFABs are at some particular risk of misdiagnosis these days, and incorrectly diagnosing themselves, in some cases, and that as the numbers seeking transition rise, we should expect to see more of these cases. Remaining stringent in the path of diagnosis and medical gatekeeping here is only common sense.
Probably not what you wanted to hear, or what anyone here wanted to hear, but believe me, this WILL become a serious thorn in our side as a community soon if we do not address these issues. I have been saying for some time now that this issue will become a problem, particularly if we waive gatekeeping and hand the treatment out like candy. So far very few people have wanted to acknowledge this. Yes, you will likely have to defend yourself soon, as more of these cases happen and the spotlight is shone on "protecting the children" from "gender ideology" as our opponents have taken to calling it, and at this point yes, some people in our community ARE treating it like an ideology and not a medical matter (that is the schism I mentioned). I already routinely speak on social media about the dangers of not having a stringent process by which children and teens can be medically assessed and protected from ideological peer pressure, and increasing numbers of psych health people are starting to weigh in. This is to be expected given that trans activists want to make it easier for children to transition as well... it has put a great deal of media spotlight on us in the last 3 years alone.
