bletchp

> What it comes down to is just punishing gender non-conforming behavior.

Not really though, it's perfectly possible to be gender non-conforming without undergoing drastic medical procedures. In particular, all the women and men who reject the societal impositions of femininity and masculinity, while still being comfortable with their bodies.

Gay people don't require any medical interventions to be gay, so it's not really the same thing.

If the transgender identity is innate, why are there so many detransitioners coming out recently? Something has clearly gone very wrong.

> Puberty blockers have been administered as a valid treatment for precocious puberty for many decades.

That's a different treatment though, because puberty eventually resumes. Halting it entirely is more akin to the castrati children [1] who had their puberty physically blocked through removal of testicles.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrato