I want to respond to something that Jack Saddleback said. He mentioned that gender expression is often how children are identified for trans-conversion therapy, which is very true. Dr. Zucker mentioned in his testimony on Tuesday that a child who is seen to be gender non-conforming, such as wearing a dress or playing with the wrong toys, was a frequent referral to a clinic and a frequent referral to his private practice now.
Those same ideas are the ones used against children, and they make it even harder for children, even at a young age, to define themselves, when the idea of exploring who they are is thought of as something that needs to be brought to therapy.
It might not be wrong. Often, one of the statements that gets said is that these children will not turn out to be trans, which is fine and true, but the idea that these need to be medicalized hurts everybody—both trans and cis people.